Linux certified Hardware - Was: [a bit off topic] Video Cards andXFree86

[Ira Abramov - Scalable Solutions]

Today, Alex Shnitman blurbed:

> I'll have to be a "me too"er. (For me it was CD-R media. First they
> tried to convince, and then to prove (!), that standard shitty green
> TDK blanks are gold-plated. I *know* that the reflective layer is
> golden, that's the way it is in all the media. Gold-plated is
> something else altogether. Idiots.)

while off-topic, let me just add that TDK medias are some of the worst
out there. I've tested a few brands on my new Plextor CD-R (8x, gotta
love it) under both windows and Linux, CDDA and data, DAO and
multisession. the only medias that ever gave me problems here were TDK,
and so I'm sticking to $1 namesless medias, the kind that comes on a
spindle in a batch of 50... paying anything higher, other than for 80
minute (700 meg) medias, is totally unjustified.

now to get the thread back on-topic: do people on this list think there
is a market for a Linux-only hardware vendor? I mean, will a business in
the image of VA-Research or Penguin Computing be able to bring home the
bacon^H^H^H^H^HGefilte Fish?

Ira