On 7/29/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Howdy,
I'm gearing up for a new hardware purchase and I find that I need a little
help figuring out "what is" and "what isn't" linux compatible.
For the most part today, this isn't really a concern [1]. Most
motherboard chipsets, network cards, USB controllers, IEEE1394
controllers, etc are all supported, it is just a matter of selecting
the right kernel options. The exceptions are mostly wireless chipsets
and graphics cards.
The major problem today is the graphics card. If you don't mind
proprietary drivers, nvidia is the way to go. Just make sure you get
a card supported by their current (not legacy) drivers [2]. If you
don't want proprietary drivers, ATI Radeon 9250 boards are still
available and well supported, although I don't know about PCI-e
versions. Intel integrated graphics chips also have excellent
support, although I have never used one so I can't comment on the
performance.
For wireless, Intel has excellent linux support.
-Richard
[1] http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html
[2] http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8762/README/appendix-a.html
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