[ILUG] Linux Incompatibility List (was: Graphics card fully supported by Open Source drivers!)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Conry (michael.conry at gmail.com):

> In a way, such "support" is _sometimes_worse_ than none.  There may be
> two components on the shelf.  One with a penguin on the box, one
> without.  The one with the penguin includes an
> unsupportable/out-of-date binary only driver, the one without uses a
> chipset that has a community-developed driver in the main kernel tree.
>  I know which one I'd rather buy, but to make that correct choice can
> take a lot of homework.

You can help make this task easier, as you find such cases:
http://leenooks.com/  ("Linux Incompatibility List")

  We make an effort to explain the reasons for lack of Linux support, and
  how incompatible the hardware in question is. For instance, some
  hardware may only work with a proprietary driver (limiting it to x86
  platforms most likely), other things might not work too well because the
  manufacturer doesn't provide specs, and still others might simply be so
  new that no one has written a driver yet.
 
  This site is a wiki, which means anyone can edit the text.