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Tip: Is my hardware Linux-compatible? Find out here |
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007 |
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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.
True, hardware support for GNU/Linux has improved greatly in the last
decade. Today you can pick out any computer system and stand a strong
chance of having it work out of the box with your distribution of
choice. Yet enough gaps in support remain that doing research before
buying remains a sensible idea. Read more at Linux.com
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