[Leaplist] Linux Advocasy: What they'll miss

[Todd Davenport]

Ubuntu does have a hardware compatibility list.  I've
never seen one for Red Hat.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport

http://www.ubuntuhcl.org/

It seems to be fairly accurate and up-to-date.  But I
know that Ubuntu is just one of many distros.

~Todd


--- "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> Ram K. Singh wrote:
> > I use Linux but most discouraging part is there
> are
> > computers that do not accept Linux at all and
> there is
> > no list, no test to know which brands would accept
> > Linux and which would not. 
> >
> > Ram
> >   
> 
> Oooooooohhhh, man, I *definitely* 2nd that motion.
> RedHat used to have a 
> fabulous set of pages where they described hardware
> support status 
> broken down by mbd, NIC, gfx card, chipset, etc.,
> i.e. piece by piece. 
> Had 'em all marked with color bars
> (green-yellow-red) for 
> support-status, URL's for whoever was maintaining
> drivers, etc. *Very* 
> nice. I had it bookmarked, but have misplaced the
> bookmark or (more 
> likely, I think) the URL isn't there any more. *Way*
> too bad ....
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	William A. Mahaffey III
> 
> 
>
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