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Is my hardware Linux-compatible? Find out here (Linux.com)

[Posted August 14, 2007 by ris]

Linux.com takes a look at choosing Linux compatible hardware. "Deciding whether a particular computer is a good candidate for installing GNU/Linux can involve a nightmare of details about hardware compatibility. Nor is assembling a custom computer on which to run GNU/Linux any easier. In both cases, you need to evaluate video cards, sound cards, printers, scanners, digital camera, wireless cards, and mobile devices for compatibility with the operating system. Fortunately, help is available."

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Posted Aug 15, 2007 8:08 UTC (Wed) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]

In some ways, it's easier to keep track of the stuff that isn't compatible:

http://www.leenooks.com

Is my hardware Linux-compatible? Find out here (Linux.com)

Posted Aug 19, 2007 14:07 UTC (Sun) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link]

In theory, yes. The two lists are equivalent (up to a negation operation), but in practice we need both, since there is no chance to have either truly complete.