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Linux Driver Wiki Opened

Posted by timothy on from the what-works-and-how dept.

Florian Becker writes "A new Wiki with hardware information for newbies and developer has opened. The site can be found at linux-driver.org." The site is designed to collect driver information about as many pieces of Linux-friendly hardware as possible, "like specifications, developer specifications, installation and the actual state for Linux driver and support. The new page reached the 500 contents in just one week." Update: 09/29 16:08 GMT by T : Jeremy of linuxquestions.org writes "Just wanted to point out that LinuxQuestions.org has a user-created Linux Hardware Compatibility List that already has over 1,500 items." Thanks!

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  1. Great Idea by I_Love_Pocky! · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I just think there should be a similar site that lists hardware that is known to have problems with Linux. It seems just as useful to me.

    1. Re:Great Idea by BinLadenMyHero · · Score: 3, Insightful

      why a similar site, and not this same site?
      it's a wiki..

  2. Re:What I'd like is... by Singletoned · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thanks, certainly helpful, but I was thinking a bit more on idealogical grounds as well.

    Do ATI or nVidia have a particularly good relationship with the OSS community? Or maybe Intel or AMD? Maybe their products both work, but one or the other helps in other ways?

    For example Nestle chocolate is probably just as good as other chocolate, but they are an unethical company and so I don't buy their products. Fair Trade coffee is probably slightly worse than some other coffees but they are very ethical (though I don't actually buy Fair Trade coffee as Lavazza is too good).