On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:13:25AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > * Colin Watson wrote (2004-02-18 01:59): > >On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:33:38PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:17:23PM -0500, . wrote: > >> > What is the likelyhood that the hardware in these computers is 100% > >> > compatible with Debian and all it takes is the regular Debian > >> > installation procedure ? > >> > >> 100%. Linux is Linux when it comes to hardware compatibility. > > > >Not necessarily: vendors such as Red Hat and SuSE (and, indeed, Debian, > >although to a lesser extent) often patch their kernels for additional > >hardware support. > > Those patches should be available.
Available, probably, if you go to the effort to hunt for them (and they might be binary-only in some cases). Applied by Debian? Not necessarily. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
