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. -- Stuart Ellis stuart@xxxxxxxx Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ GPG key ID: 7098ABEA GPG key fingerprint: 68B0 E291 FB19 C845 E60E 9569 292E E365 7098 ABEA
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