The h-node project aims at the construction of a hardware database in order to identify what devices work with a fully free operating system. The staging.h-node.org website is structured like a wiki in which all the users can modify or insert new contents. The h-node project is developed in collaboration and as an activity of the FSF.

You can contribute by creating an account at staging.h-node.org and editing its user-generated contents. All your modification will be saved in the history of the product you are editing/adding. Each revision (the current one or the old ones) will be marked by the name of the user who created it.

You can also contribute by suggesting new hardware that should be added to the database or features that should be implemented.

In order to add a device to the h-node database, contributors must be able to verify that it works with free drivers and without non-free firmware. Most OS distributions include non-free firmware modules, and so are very likely to give false-positive results. For this purpose, it is strongly encouraged to test on an operating system endorsed by the FSF.

All hardware information is published under the CC0 1.0 Universal license. Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, sell, or distribute the data for any purpose.

Here is a list of other archives collecting information about hardware working with free software:

• LibrePlanet Freest Hardware Page
• LibrePlanet Italia - progetti hardware database

This website is still under development; and the variety of computing hardware is constantly changing. Many new devices could be supported; and new website features could be implemented (for example: new types of computers and hardware, issues<->email interoperability). For these reasons, some problems may occur. If you find a bug, please open a bug report with the topic: 'maybe a bug'.