Which Distro Has The Most Auto Detecting?

lovetto · 09-02-2005, 11:48 AM

title says it all

truelinux · 09-02-2005, 12:11 PM

well this is a question with many answers. many have many reasons for supporting a distro. But personally i feel that all the distros do the same amount of auto detecting. I used mandrake 10.1,fc 3 , fc4 and found all to be of equal caliber. But if you are installing on laptop i would suggest using SUSE or Mandriva and Mandriva even supports mp3 and other common video formats right out of the box.If you are familiar to windows then use some distros like Linspire or Xandros.

ironwalker · 09-02-2005, 12:55 PM

knoppix,mepis and kanotix...test it with the live cd and they have excellent installers.
mepis and kanotix are tops as far as laptop and wireless goes.

mepis is debian testing based and kanotix is debian unstable based
knoppix is based on mixed sources....therefore I dont reccomend it,but it does offer great hardware detection.

Gentoo live cd works great too.....even without the live cd but I am mentioning live cd's as you can test and see for yourself what it detects and what it doesnt.

aysiu · 09-02-2005, 01:08 PM

Depends what hardware you have.

tuxdev · 09-02-2005, 05:16 PM

I also agree that every distro has the same amount of autodetection. Much of it already comes with the actual program for sound, printing, X, etc..., not the distro.

JesusFreak84 · 09-24-2005, 01:38 PM

How about detecting on a laptop? I can't exactly crack the sucker open and look at what brand(s) this, that, and the other thing are.