| | 94 | === Alexander Shaduri (Developer of GSmartControl) === |
| | 95 | |
| | 96 | A few years ago I felt that I wanted to contribute something |
| | 97 | to the open source community, being a heavy user of all the |
| | 98 | open source software out there. I started looking for areas that |
| | 99 | needed some work and found that there were no user-friendly |
| | 100 | HDD health inspection tools for the Linux desktop users. A few months |
| | 101 | later [http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/ GSmartControl] was born. |
| | 102 | Because of excellent portability of smartmontools, |
| | 103 | GSmartControl was very easy to port to a myriad of operating systems |
| | 104 | I never even used before. |
| | 105 | |
| | 106 | Thanks to the friendly community of smartmontools developers, |
| | 107 | the relationship between smartmontools and GSmartControl is |
| | 108 | progressing nicely. My wishes for the future of smartmontools |
| | 109 | would be a solid API, even better support for various controllers |
| | 110 | and drives (although it's already excellent), and of course, more |
| | 111 | user data saved thanks to the early detection of future failures. :) |
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