On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 15:23 -0500, Patrick Barnes wrote:
I think an 'HIL' would suffer exactly the same problems and
an HCL, just
from a different perspective.
+1. The rate of change is very high, especially in some of the problem
areas (wireless, graphics).
Anymore, such a list is really not even
necessary. Very, very little hardware still cannot be used with Linux.
Some older, proprietary, and rare hardware will not run, but overall
your odds are as good with Linux as they are with Windows. The only
concern is how much effort getting the hardware to run will take.
Yes. Most issues/complaints are now around certain types of feature
cannot be supported out-of-the-box, often because the manufacturers are
opposed (3D acceleration with most standard graphics chips, 802.11g
wireless, Winmodems). So I would be in favour of some general
information that explains why the issues exist, and makes some
suggestions (check support sites,
www.google.com/linux with chipset
number etc.). Arguably some types of hardware are common enough and
have well-known fixes, so specific notes might be feasible (Centrino
wireless, Nvidia graphics). A list of specific models that incorporate
these chips would be doomed, though, IMO.
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