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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. What about software incompatabilities? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I have some software from a package called... umm.. oh yea, kde that does not work with software from another package called... thats right... gnome!!

  2. /.ed already?? by mE123 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Is it me or was this site slashdoted before even the first comment was posted??

  3. 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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    Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
  4. Black list? by martingunnarsson · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Phew, this is gonna be one heck of a long list! They could have taken the easy path and just make a short list of the hardware that actually works. ;-)

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    Martin
  5. I guess their incompatible with Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Duh.

  6. Re:*raises hand* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    its jerry-rig, not jury-rig. Jury rigging is something you do in a criminal trial...