[H-GEN] Going Open source

[Noel Butler]

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 08:51 +1000, Greg Black wrote:

> > If you are new to Linux there is one big gotcha as far as I am concerned
> > - i.e. graphics cards.
> > In the past I have had machines with ATI cards and they haven't played
> > well with Linux.
> 
> This was true in the past, but I really don't think it's true of modern 
> Ubuntu. 


Nor with Fedora which has incidentally handled my wireless far better,
and supported much earlier, than ubuntu, in fact, even an old Slackware
10.2 worked out the box with it, when ubuntu failed, however as of
10.04, they seem to have  "caught up" with Fedora in that respect since
it works out the box now, If you have concerns for more modern drivers,
I'd be going with Fedora since its more bleeding edge.


> I have boxes with ATI, Intel and nVidia graphics and Ubuntu 10.x 


Some intel chipsets are problematic, but thats intel and kernels shit
fight, IOW, it affects every distro.

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