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The Linux Incompatibility List

Posted by timothy on from the still-doesn't-work dept.

Jonathan Lassoff writes "The Linux Incompatibility list is a wiki project that attempts to document hardware that is incompatible with Linux rather than list what is compatible. In the wiki, it is possible to add alternitives so as to push hardware manufacturers to make good binary drivers, publish specifications, or even better, publish open drivers."

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  1. Wow, looks like they'll need new hardware by ScytheBlade1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    0 comments and it's already /.'d into the ground.

    1. Re:Wow, looks like they'll need new hardware by chimpo13 · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's because the server is IIS. Someone glanced sideways at it and down it went.

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    2. Re:Wow, looks like they'll need new hardware by Iron+Clad+Burrito · · Score: 5, Funny

      You mean WINE won't run IIS?

    3. Re:Wow, looks like they'll need new hardware by sparkywonderchicken · · Score: 3, Funny

      Maybe it's really a modded Xbox and they decided to play Halo instead.

  2. Video cards by Brento · · Score: 5, Funny

    Make life easy - somebody just please copy the entire list of video cards from Epinions or Cnet.

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    1. Re:Video cards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm running an ATI Radeon 9200 at home, and it literally blows the socks off the Nvidia card I had at work.

      Literally, you say? Maybe the Nvidia card was clocking itself down because the socks were impeding heat dissipation.

  3. List of Hardware with Linux Problems by manual_overide · · Score: 4, Funny

    Device: *
    Vendor: *

    That was easy... :p

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  4. Slashdot compatibility by fmlug.org · · Score: 3, Funny

    Their servers dont look like there /. Compatible. I wonder if thats in their database?

  5. Re:no no no by flosofl · · Score: 3, Funny

    and now this link is salshdotted... Well done! :)

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  6. Sounds good... by teamhasnoi · · Score: 3, Funny
    but does it run Linux?

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    . oh. sorry.

  7. Re:The Kodak DX4530 *IS* supported... by adrianbaugh · · Score: 5, Funny

    I overjoyed when, having bought a Fujifilm camera, I realized I could justify having /mnt/fuji on my system. Oh well, little things please little minds I suppose... ;-)

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  8. Mirror by throbbingbrain.com · · Score: 4, Funny


    www.compaq.com

  9. Re:Difficult to maintain? by spidereyes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Drum roll please --

    Also missing from the list: Women.

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  10. haha.. by destiney · · Score: 3, Funny

    So much for all those postgres zealots screaming about how it handles load sooooo well..

    Connection to database failed
    could not connect to server: Connection refused
    Is the server running on host localhost and accepting
    TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

    while executing
    "pg_connect -conninfo $conninfo"
    (procedure "DBOpenHost" line 5)
    invoked from within
    "DBOpenHost [config db_host] [config db_user] [config db_pass] [config db_db]"
    (procedure "DBOpen" line 2)
    invoked from within
    "DBOpen"
    (procedure "DBRawQuery" line 3)
    invoked from within
    "DBRawQuery $query"
    (procedure "DBQuery" line 7)
    invoked from within
    "DBQuery "SELECT id FROM yakuwiki_page WHERE id='%s'" $id"
    (procedure "checkPageId" line 2)
    invoked from within
    "checkPageId $id"
    (procedure "show" line 4)
    invoked from within
    "show $page"
    ("show" arm line 1)
    invoked from within
    "switch -- $op {
    show {show $page}
    edit {edit $page}
    update {update $page}
    history {history $page}
    diff {pagediff $page $rev}
    upload {wikiupload ..."
    (procedure "main" line 13)
    invoked from within
    "main"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
    "uplevel main"