X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Oh and a couple others that I just remembed..

Redhat's HCL list
https://hardware.redhat.com/hwcert/index.cgi

D. J. Berstein's 20060107 Unix workstation hardware and build guide
http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20060107.html

Linuxprinting.com suggested printers
http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html

Arstechnica June 2006 hardware buyers guide (windows oriented)
http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/system-guide-200606.ars

So on and so forth.

Most people just want stuff they don't have to mess with. A guide or recommended/suggested hardware can do this for them.