On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 16:38, Fergus Wilde wrote:
I don't think that's a bizarre way of doing things, Basil - Spec your applications, then your OS, then buy hardware that it will run on. Don't randomly go out and buy hardware and then try to get what you need to run on it. However, I would certainly agree that it's hard work trying to get accurate info on what current hardward *will* run well on a given distro.
I'll second that. When starting to shop for my current PC a year or so ago, I did check the Suse hardware database, only to find that currently available hardware was not in it. Took a chance, only to find that the onboard Ethernet (3com soho) and audio were *NOT* supported at that time, so forced to shop for some pci-boards. Same story for TV-board, accordingly to reference, hauppage board should work, but after buying one, finding that hauppage decided to skip the supported brooktree chip, and started to use a conexant chip (unsupported) gr.. I presume (!) that the testers at Suse DO have the latest bleading edge technology available. So might it be a good idea to have *that* hardware layout described, so it can be used as a reference model? If it described in plain words that Laptops from brand D*** model abcd are a pain in the neck while laptops from T*******, model 1234 works like a dream, people from company D*** might think twice... (the initials were choosen randomly ;-) Hans.