The Quest Of Finding Linux Compatible Hardware

“While Intel is often looked at as being the most Linux and
open-source friendly company among the major IHVs, as shown today
in Intel’s Linux Sandy Bridge Graphics Still Troubling, even in
2011 there are still serious Linux hardware issues to overcome. The
Linux hardware support has a much better foundation than where it
was at in 2004 when I founded Phoronix, and for hardware that’s
been in the marketplace for a few months old these problems quickly
go away, but for new adopters it’s the biggest challenge.

“So just how hard/easy is it to find say a graphics card that
has been tested to work on Ubuntu 10.10, with the stock 2.6.35
kernel, using a Mesa 7.9 Gallium3D driver, and has a price between
$150 and $200 USD? Or to find a motherboard that’s working on Arch
using a pre-2.6.34 kernel and costs less than $100 and has
integrated graphics that work with the Nouveau driver? Seems like a
challenge, right? Well, what if it was simply a matter of filling
out a form to get such useful information? Something like
this:”

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