Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Hi, I don't want to start a distro war, but I am looking for the distro1) Out-of-the-box support for most devices is directly related to kernel version.
(x86 32 bit) that has the best USB device support. It does not have to
be leading edge, or easy to install, or have a great graphic front end
or installer.
All I am really concerned about is installing it and playing with a USB device. I want whatever gives me the best chance of it working.
Distros generally stick to mainstream kernel modules (though they might provide some other modules as seperate packages, which are not installed by default).
2) Two exceptions I can think of: printers - related to version of printing system (look for cupsys, foomatic-db etc.) and digital cameras - related to version of libgphoto2.
To start with, you can make a list of the kernel version for various distros (possibly list also latest version available as a seperate package).
Redhat FC3: 2.6.9 SuSE 9.2: 2.6.8 Mandrake 10.1: 2.6.8 Debian 3.0r4 : 2.4.18
Notes (why this list is not really useful as is):
* This is just the result of a quick google (I tried to figure out what you'd get if you just install from the official cd image) -
I'm not sure this is exact and it's certainly not complete (I use none of the above).
* All mentioned distros provide some packaged latest kernel (2.6.11).
* This only reflects status today. Whenever someone makes a new official release - they'll jump to the top of the list.
================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
