If you are a Linux enthusiast, then one of the thing you might consider when buying a new hardware is its compatibility with your operating system.

Unfortunately, there aren’t many dealers out there that know whether their products are compatible under GNU/Linux or otherwise. This may lead to frustration when you’ve to spend a lot of time searching for a particular hardware that can work under Linux.

Luckily there are websites which maintains a list of Linux supported hardware. These websites are :

• Ubuntu Hardware Support
• Linux Compatible Hardware
• openSUSE Hardware Compatibility List
• Linux Hardware List

Although some of the lists are maintained by a particular vendor, the list can be use as a guideline when buying hardware for other Linux distro too.

Please note that the lists provided here are not always up-to-date with the latest Linux kernel . You are still encouraged to find more information for newer hardware from Linux support forums and newsgroups.

[tags]linux,windows,computers,open source,hardware,ubuntu, debian[/tags]

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