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
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