Mobile Devices Team

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The Mobile Devices Team is a small group of developers which is trying to make the user experience on laptops and notebooks as good as possible.

Fields of operation

"Notebooks" are a big, big field, with a lot of work to be done. So we have specialized on some issues, and ask for help with others from other teams. Here is an excerpt of issues on which we (currently) concentrate:

• Bluetooth
• Hotplug
• IrDA
• Multi-function keys
• Finger print reader
• PCMCIA
• (Built-in) card readers
• Power management, with several subdivisions:
  • Suspend support in kernel- and userspace (suspend tips)
  • powersaved development (Projectpage)
  • Testing / development of runtime power management (suspending single devices while they are not in use)
• Profile management (SCPM-Projectpage, configuration)
• Synchronization (OpenSync)
• Tablet PCs (TabletPCs infopage)
• WLAN
• UMTS (kernel driver, UMTSmon)

We also look at docking stations, card readers, and other components laptops and notebooks have, but that's mostly testing.

Mobile Devices Team Members

• Christian Zoz
• Danny Kukawka
• Stefan "seife" Seyfried
• Timo Hönig
• Frank Seidel
• Kay Sievers
• Marco Skambraks

Additionally we have some working students, trainees and interns working in our team. At the moment these are:

• Holger Macht
• Christopher Stender
• Helmut Schaa
• Alexander Orlovskyy

Useful things to know

If you have problems with your notebook a good starting point is the opensuse-mobile mailinglist. A lot of helpful people are on this list. Although the SUSE employees on that list often lack the time to answer (we are sorry for that), it is read by us, and we use what we read for improvements.

• opensuse-mobile@opensuse.org - Discussion about mobility in the openSUSE distribution

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An improving list of notebooks and laptops that have been tested by users from everywhere can be found in the HCL/Laptops-section of this wiki.