On 8/5/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Just curious to know, how many new systems have you installed with linux distros that had all drivers uptodate and the system had all its hardware working with full performance in linux?
A few at friends' places over the span of a year or so. And I've seen the situation improving over the years. I was able to do a full Debian desktop install on my new computer (AMD64+Gigabyte mobo) back in March without tinkering with configuration files even once. Ofcourse, I went for 32 bit instead of the amd64 arch CD since I wanted the system up within a couple of hours.
But then I am open to the idea that I may have been lucky to get a certain set of h/w that didn't sweat me much. Either ways, the absense of support for certain hardware support is partly (largely?) the manufacturer's fault as well. Distros generally release all the hardware drivers they support.
Siddhesh