For me this still is a big issue for the Linux community becuase more than three and a half years later the situation has only become worse. The linked Hardware-HOWTO still is at a status of 2007 and therefore useless for today's hardware. The hardware support part of the Ubuntu Wiki was stalled (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport) and Ubuntu Friendly was stopped (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFriendly). Additionally, several other non-Ubuntu hardware databases closed their gates.
If the "Will it work? is yes 99%+ of the time now" would be true, than all of this would not be a problem at all. Unfortunately, at least my experience collected over the last years is much lower than 99%+ (except maybe for network cards). For the moment, the only useful and nearly up-to-date centralized database for consumer hardware seems to be the http://www.linux- hardware-guide.com although some sections are still sparsely filled. Although working together with the community, this database seems to be partly commercial. But as experience teached us over the last years, databases based on community contribution and voluntary work seem not to last for very long. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581111 Title: Reference to Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO goes to defunct domain To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuinstallguide/+bug/581111/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
