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best hardware support?
Name: YoanZ Date: January 4, 2004 at 16:43:29 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: 600 mhz/ 192 MB
Comment:
I'm just wonder what *nix distro has the BEST hardware support... I've used Mandrake, Redhat, Slackware, FreeBSD & Gentoo and now I'm on W2k... and I'm looking for a distro with the best support, whether it's one of the above or some other one. If possible, they should be 'small', too, none of that clutter like Mandrake or Redhat... but I can cope. :)
Name: heart_debian Date: January 5, 2004 at 10:39:36 Pacific
Reply:
Well, since most open source drivers are included in the Linux Kernel sources, and all "Linux Systems" obviously use Linux as the kernel, the best support will of any full-featured distro with the newest kernel image and modules. From what I know, Linux Systems have better "new" hardware support than *BSD systems, coz there are lots and lots of people writing drivers for the Linux Kernel every day.
I prefer Fedora Core - http://fedora.redhat.com even though I use the system I created *myself*.
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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave Date: January 8, 2004 at 05:03:33 Pacific
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You may want to wait until they start shipping distros with the new 2.6 kernel....shouldn't be too long now.
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