List of Distros that support drivers out of the box or a program to install them?
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What are the distros that support hardware drivers out of the box or a program to install them i.e. example image I know of these: Ubuntu and derivatives (can install drivers via Hardware Drivers program) PCLinuxOS (everything seems to work out of the box) ... Can someone tell me of more? Thanks. |
You might as well say ubuntu does also, they have a place to check on installation if you want to install proprietary drivers and flash. I believe Linux Mint also comes "out of the box" and knoppix. As time goes you will probably see more distros. Most of them have them in their repositories now so that it is no big deal to install.
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you can add Redhat, centos, fedora to the list.
i'm sure there are lots of others |
Pretty much any distro that uses a package manager can be added to the list.
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i was at a speech hosted by richard stallman and he mentioned that the reason why he switched from debian linux to i think fedora was because debian had a facility to install proprietary drivers which made it harder for the free software foundation to push manufacturers for the need of open drivers.
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