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Anyone keeping a list on hardware compatibility by manufacturer?

Here is a site that has a list of compatible hardware. It is all user submitted results. I'm not sure how up to date it is though. http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatibility.html

Over the next 12 months, do you plan to increase the number of Linux systems you run?
        * Yes (51%)
        * No (29%)
        * Already running 100% Linux! (20%)
Total Votes: 2,502

I've already posted I am running 100% Linux. Two friends of mine are also running Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy Eft and they are running 100% Linux. The Edgy Eft live CD performs exceptionally well and the install goes smoothly. Proprietary Hardware/Software installations can get tricky
-CSS stuff for playing/ripping dvds)
-Hauppage Video Capture TV Tuner Cards
but the answers are out on the internet with clearly explained recipes and they do work. The Linux installations for all the distros would be much easier if the Manufacturers making the proprietary hardware/software would be more cooperative with the Linux community. The Linux afficianados already know that if the Windows-Compatible Hardware Manufacturers don't provide Linux Compatible hardware, the Linux users will look to other Linux-Compatible hardware manufacturers, before they buy their next hardware upgrade. There are Linux-Compatible Hardware providers if you didn't know.
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatibility.html
And yes there are people who sell Desktops/Laptops/PDA's with Linux pre-installed.
http://www.linux.org/hardware/

FYI the USB, FIREWIRE and USB 2.0 run perfectly on Ubuntu DAPPER Linux and Ubuntu Edgy EFT Linux without any tweaking. My external harddrive, hp3820 printer, and my friend's mp3 player and scanner connected/ran right away without issues. I would assume the other Distros(DEBIAN, MANDRIVA, FEDORA, SLACKWARE, SUSE and the rest) also boot up their Linux smoothly and respect them all. In my opinion Mr. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is spreading FUD on Microsoft's behalf. He says there are too many flavors of Linux to choose from. Just the fact there are many Linux distros out there says a lot about linux being popular and it also says a lot about Linux empowering more people because it is FREE and OPEN-SOURCE. Microsoft is having difficulty competing with something that is being installed for free 0$. Cost for me installing Linux 0$, Cost for my friend 0$, Cost for my other friend 0$.

Recently there was an announcement about a MS and SUSE partnership. This is good news for linux because it will reduce hardware compatibility issues coming from proprietary hardware. My guess this partnership is being done to satisfy the government demand for not being locked into one OS VENDOR and to make the MS/SUSE bid more appealing. If all bodes well, the governments will demand that the bid include the demand the source patches will be spread upstream to the other LINUX DISTRO KERNELS in a timely manner considering the fact that it is all taxpayer money paying for their contracts in the first place. If the MS/SUSE bid wins big government, they need to deliver. If they don't, there is always place for the other Linux DISTROS submitting bids to big government for doing the same thing.

It's all good. Linux lives and no FUD(Fear Uncertainty Doubt) tactics will stop it from thriving and gain the true market share it merits. Of course, credit needs to be given to the GNU Manifesto for providing the spirit to drive all the real synergy behind Linux.

Cheers :)

I wouldn't count on that actualy
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http://www.urjaonline.com/web-hosting-Burkina-Faso .asp
http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=countries &country=BF
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/French_Ministry_of_ Foreign_Affairs_and_Mandrakesoft_launch_...._s3526 5.html
Not all totally about linux or not totally up to date , but it does show that in Burkina Faso that linux has made some impact , so i would expect that server use is up to some extent though i couldn't give you hard figures without commissioning a study

You mean something like this?

You mean like this?

>So basically, while I might be running:
>2.4.21 on RHAS 3.0
>IBM would check for the freaking sub-release >number so I had to be running:
>2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp
>I couldn't run:
>2.4.21-9.ELsmp

Yeah, tey check the sub-release number - your problem is that you had a wrong kernel version.

The grandparent asked if you had such an RPM, could you still use CentOS. The answer is Yes, you could if you had the right kernel version (which you didn't have). CentOS provides same versions as RHEL so both in your (RHEL) and CentOS case, the solution would be to update to 2.4.21-27.0.2EL

This package was released by CentOS (see the first announcement here):
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story40375.html

It was reported a while ago that recent versions of Nero run on Linux using recent versions of WINE.
HERE

Before we start to discuss on creating a FreeBIOS, I would like to ask, how do you flash your motherboard BIOS in a GNU/Linux Operating system?

Do we have a UniFlash counterpart in GNU/Linux?
(Btw, UniFlash is a DOS utility.)

Because AFAIK, I still have to boot a DOS floppy in order to have my motherboard BIOS flashed; or rely on tricks like creating a Bootable USB flashdrive wilth DOS on it.

Linux Compatible

It apparently runs if buggily according to this report.

"I bet with Windows, I can add my friend's music collection to my playlist! Oh... DRM."
If you can't afford the songs, then you don't really want them, do you? Borrow an album, sure, but do you think fair use should really include "permanently borrowing" thousands of songs?

"I bet I can create a wireless network without an access point! Oh... Need Linux for that."
Linux and roughly twenty pages of howtos. Which wireless cards work with which distros? Oops, I meant which revisions of which wireless cards works with which distros?

I really wish I could use some sort of "wizard" in XP to "share" my connection. Oh wait, I can.

"I can't even change the MAC address on my ethernet cards."
Gosh, I wish there was an item for around $100 or so that allowed me to "route" all of this "internet" traffic. Guess I'll just have to read the howtos and learn how to use all the unix commands.

"And my sound card skips and crackles, because it's older and not well supported. Same with my old video card, damn. No solution except to downgrade to Windows 98, huh?"
I would have tried downloading drivers, but you sound like you've got better ideas.

"To install a sound card: plug it in, hope it works, swear if it doesn't."
It sure is easier to look for modules, compile them, and then add them to the kernel, isn't it?

"Then buy a new card, but be sure to buy a brand name card, or the drivers will suck."
Gosh, you're right. I've never heard of anyone trying to make sure pieces of hardware worked with linux.

"I think I'll write some software!"
I do it every day, honest. Oh wait, I'm 95% of computer users. I don't think I write software, do I?

Well, that's hard to answer if we don't know what games do you play under Windows. Some games run natively on Linux (ie. Unreal Tournament), and rather big number of other games runs under Wine or Winex. Do you want your Diablo, Baldur's Gate, Civ3, Neverwinter Nights, CounterStrike, FooBar? It works. Not everything works, but I'd say that majority of games does.