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Linux Incompatibility List - Ooops:-)
Linux Incompatibility List - Ooops:-)
Posted Dec 15, 2005 7:34 UTC (Thu) by davidw (subscriber, #947)In reply to: "Just works with Linux" by njhurst
Parent article: "Just works with Linux"
It's still there, but for some reason I didn't get the email saying I needed to renew it, and it expired last night. I have now paid it up for two years and it is back on line!
It is still going strong (unfortunately), and I still think it's a very valid idea, because it best deals with the incentives that Our Editor mentions.
In other words, if stuff "just works", you're unlikely to go poking around finding out what it is and reporting it to a web site. On the other hand, if you discover your brand new Widget 2000 doesn't work with Linux, perhaps you'll be irritated enough to go list it on the Incompatibility List. Also, perhaps people shopping will see which manufacturers are to be avoided, and spend their money somewhere else.
Also, there really is a lot of stuff out there that works with Linux. Much more than hardware that doesn't, so a list of things to avoid is likely to be shorter than a big long list of everything that works fine.
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Posted Dec 15, 2005 8:16 UTC (Thu) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]
Turns out the emails warning me were thrown out by Thunderbird's spam filter:-( I'm not really very happy with it (tons of spam gets through, and apparently it loses important emails once in a while), but that's another matter.
One way to make a compatibility list work would be to automate it, to take some of the annoyance out of reporting things.
You'd run a program which would pop up a dialog asking you if it's ok to look at your hardware and send the information back to some centralized database in order to help improve Linux. At that point, it would look through your system, and ask you whether everything seems to be working ok, or where possible, automate testing. That might be sort of tricky, though, especially where less knowledgeable users are concerned...
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Posted Dec 22, 2005 17:16 UTC (Thu) by ArsonSmith (guest, #5695) [Link]
I think it needs to be broken down by chipsets that are suppose to be supported in the kernelV2425-3 10-100 ethernet chipset
then by cards that support it
Kellogs ethernet card cheerio net interface netsurfer pro II
then list working status
number of people that have gotten this to work works out of box (no configuration) works after mild configuration requires out of kernel modules to be compiled or patches to kerenl does not work