Taken from an osnews.com thread:
“The secret to my success in using Solaris x86, including Solaris 10, Solaris Express and OpenSolaris is using good hardware such as Intel NIC’s, mid range ATI or nVidia video cards and a Proxim Orinoco Gold PCMCIA wireless card.”
Same rule applies to Linux. People will obviously complain about nVidia closed source drivers, and it is a legit complaint, but if you want to get things done / have excellent 3d support it can’t be beat.
Manufacturers which are currently on my blacklist of vendors I will not purchase from:
- Broadcom
- DLink (too many revisions of same card with same name makes it horrible to use on ANY platform (including windows)
- Any offbrand ram company without a lifetime warranty
- Any protools based hardware
- Any ATI video capture card
- Any Sis products
Hope that helps someone. If you find hardware not compatible you can also post it in this thread.
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#1 by Herman Bos on June 15, 2008 - 2:44 pm
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I would like to point out that this is much more difficult for Solaris (x86) then for Linux. I remember trying to install Solaris on a HP DL145G3 like a year ago and no luck. Didn’t even see the sata controller. While Linux was running on the same configuration for quite a while already.
Sticking with Intel is quite safe in general. Intel video chips are also very nice if your not a gamer.
#2 by Scott Wegner on June 15, 2008 - 3:35 pm
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Purchasing new hardware for Linux can be scary because it is generally a hit-or-miss experience. I know there are a lot of resources out there for helping to choose reliable products, but is there any one definitive site for checking for Ubuntu hardware compatibility? It would be nice to be able to see exactly which hardware model/versions worked with which versions of Ubuntu out-of-the-box, or what steps need to be taken. A rating system would also be a plus.
#3 by Lucian on June 15, 2008 - 4:29 pm
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There’s http://hardware4linux.info/ for general linux hardware compatibilities. As in will work with ubuntu, probably out of the box.
#4 by Vadim P. on June 15, 2008 - 4:34 pm
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Buy from system76 or zareason
and ubuntuhcl.org for reviews
#5 by Christoph Shipley on June 16, 2008 - 12:27 am
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You can’t blacklist all D-Link hardware. They make some great, low-cost, Linux-based, standalone NAS devices. I have the DNS-323 and some enterprising people have written a package management system for it. Great stuff….
#6 by Mackenzie on June 16, 2008 - 1:32 am
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I just make it a rule to get as much Intel stuff as possible. Intel graphics, Intel wireless…it’s pretty much guaranteed to work.
And yes, ZaReason & System76 FTW! I’ll be ordering a ZaReason next week…with Intel graphics and Intel wireless.
#7 by troll on June 16, 2008 - 10:26 am
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My recipe has been “Intel all the way” for years now, and it has worked flawlessly. No matter how peculiar operating system I have slapped in it has just worked! Plus, they have the luxury to do integration testing for all the parts from the very beginning which makes the hardware usually extremely solid.
#8 by Roland on March 30, 2009 - 12:45 pm
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I’ve never bought a video card, but I’ll buy one when I can get an Open-Source OpenGL video driver for it. Who will be first: ATI/AMD or NVidia? Why should I trust binary blobs?