On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi... > Is there a web site or somewhere where I can > find which hardware is compatible with debian 2.2 r2 > I want to buy new servers and new network cards.... > and I don't want to find out that the card isn't supported.... > say... and brand new 3com 905 or something... > thanks for your help... > > Mike >
Debian is a Linux distribution using the standard Linux kernels and XFree86 implementations which contain most of the hardware dependencies that I can think of. So, if some component works with Linux, then it works with Debian. I think your best bet is to search the web concerning the specific hardware you are concerned about. There is a Hardware HOWTO at www.linuxdoc.org but it seems to have been last updated in 1999, so that might not be that useful. In a quick web search on 'Linux hardware' I found a site 'www.linux.com/hardware' that I hadn't run into before that seems to have a pretty large list of hardware status, and I'm sure there are a lot of others. As far video boards are concerned, www.xfree86.org has a list of the video boards that are supported by XFree86.
