Hi, * Colin Watson wrote (2004-02-18 10:45): >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. Well, that's what the dot's second question is for, the one about ease of install. Thorsten -- Das Briefgeheimnis sowie das Post- und Fernmeldegeheimnis sind unverletzlich. - Grundgesetz, Artikel 10, Abs. 1
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