Re: Debian on a SUSE computer
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:13:25AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> * Colin Watson wrote (2004-02-18 01:59):
> >On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:33:38PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:17:23PM -0500, . wrote:
> >> > What is the likelyhood that the hardware in these computers is 100%
> >> > compatible with Debian and all it takes is the regular Debian
> >> > installation procedure ?
> >>
> >> 100%. Linux is Linux when it comes to hardware compatibility.
> >
> >Not necessarily: vendors such as Red Hat and SuSE (and, indeed, Debian,
> >although to a lesser extent) often patch their kernels for additional
> >hardware support.
>
> Those patches should be available.
Available, probably, if you go to the effort to hunt for them (and they
might be binary-only in some cases). Applied by Debian? Not necessarily.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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