On Sunday 07 December 2008 05:10, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Easwar Hariharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > Please suggest a Distro which also has a large hardware > > > compatibility. > > > > Distros don't differ much on account of hardware compatibility > > because they use the same kernel,what may differ is the version > > of the kernel and any of their own minor patches/hacks. > > Not true. There are distros which support a wider array of drivers. > For example Redhat / Fedora kernels seem to have better support for > DRI on most graphics cards while the same doesn't hold true for > Debian though Ubuntu goes a step ahead with support for restricted > drivers.
Incorrect. Support may be out of the box in case of RH / Fedora. But a simple download and recompile will provide support for ANY distro including home brew. I really is very simple. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
