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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. Dead by W2k · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's soon going to be a very very large wiki. Either because someone posted a link to it on Slashdot (expect 200 pages of Goatse ASCII art) or because there are just so many pieces of hardware that Linux won't work with (picks up a roll of duct tape, points at it illustratively).

    Unfortunately, the server seems to have gone down in flames already. How unfortunate. I'm sure everyone here has at least one piece of hardware they could contribute; I submit my #9 Imagine128 graphics card, which I never did get to work under RH9, despite it being in the list of supported cards. Oh well.

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