Review of the 10 most popular distros

Darrin Chandler dwchandler at stilyagin.com
Sun Apr 2 07:10:01 MST 2006


Jerry Davis wrote:

>Anyway, my gold standard for a distro, is one in which my Intel Pro
>2915 network card is found, setup, and fully functioning when I boot.
>To me, getting to the network is everything.
>
>Mandriva 2005 LE did this right out of the box. What others can do that?
>
>:-)
>  
>

OpenBSD. :) (see 
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwi&arch=i386&sektion=4) 
Some time ago they made a big push to get specs from wireless chipset 
vendors with some success, and did a lot of driver work with the info 
they got.

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