Ubuntu and hardware vendors

[Stephen P Rufle]

http://www.zareason.com/shop/home.php

I talked with these people while I was in CA. They are good people and
said that they go the extra mile to make sure their hardware is Linux
compatible and Ubuntu is there preferred distro.



der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
> 
> http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/
> 
> I don't see anything listing what certified and compatible mean.
> 
> It also appears that the list isn't updated to the vendor page for Dell.
> System76 doesn't have a vendor page on Ubuntu's site. I didn't check the
> others.
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/dell
> 
> That page only mentions 7.10. Maybe Dell hasn't moved on to 8.04. That's
> OK for now, but I hope they move to the LTS release.
> 
> It would be nice if either certified or compatible means that all of the
> hardware works using Free Software drivers.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans