When was the last time you had to install a new sound card on your GNU/Linux system and just couldn't quite get it to work? Sure you know what model it is and can even guess what driver supports it and may even have some idea as to the IRQ, DMA and IO port it uses.

Somehow it still does not seem to work until after you have fiddled with /etc/modules.conf and read a ton of documentation. Yeah it works but couldn't it be a little easier to do ?

This is where HardDrake enters the story. It is a fully GUI based tool which ties together many of the tools already included in a GNU/Linux distribution to automate and simplify the process of installing new hardware. Some items will be detected, others can be selected from a drop down list. The various IO, IRQ and such X86 annoyance settings can be adjusted from within this interface.

As always, when GNU/Linux users re-invent the wheel, we aim to do it better than it has ever been done before!