Distro with best hardware support

BinaryMadman · 11-17-2004, 10:15 AM

Which distro has the best and most comprehensive hardware support out there?

marghorp · 11-17-2004, 10:18 AM

I'd go with Ubuntu or Knoppix, and you can try Fedora, it's the newest (released last week). The fact is, the newer the distro, the bigger the chance, that new hardware will be supported. It's obvious.

dawizman · 11-17-2004, 04:47 PM

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Originally posted by marghorp
I'd go with Ubuntu or Knoppix, and you can try Fedora, it's the newest (released last week). The fact is, the newer the distro, the bigger the chance, that new hardware will be supported. It's obvious.

Gentoo 2004.3 was also released last week. If you know the basic commands, it should be no problem to install.

marghorp · 11-17-2004, 05:45 PM

Really? Gento 2004.3? Wow, must try it out

I had 2004.2 and loved it, but went with fedora(but fedora is a big thing, too big for me, and greedy for system resources also). Gentoo however is harder(if this is your first install, NOT RECOMENDED, unless you wish to learn linux the hard way

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theYinYeti · 11-18-2004, 04:01 AM

Mandrake has a very complete hardware support, and a very complete kernel.

Yves.

Glas · 11-18-2004, 04:22 AM

Yoper has great harware support as well. I had a problem with my sound card under most distros that I tried but I installed Yoper and it found it right away.