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What hardware will work with latest Ubuntu?
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 11:11 pm
by benflintoff
1. NVidia's been having some trouble lately, and AMD has been doing an amazing job with their Linux drivers. Even better, AMD's moving ATi to an open source model (they're just working out licensing) so I'd recommend an ATi video card. The latest drivers from AMD even support redirected rendering for 3D on a 3D surface (like the cube), and Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, due out in April of next year, will have DRI2 (again, redirected rendering) working on the open source Radeon driver.
2. Your biggest issue will be a printer. HP and Epson are both very well supported. For other brands, check before you buy. Personally, I love my Epson.
Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:55 am
by wardrich
Isn't Epson the company who puts the chip in their ink cartridges that registers when they're empty?
Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 11:29 am
by dosraider
wardrich wrote:I....puts the chip in their ink cartridges that registers when they're empty?
They all do that, I thought, and wants you to buy new ones even BEFORE they're empty ....
Some of them even go further, they will refuse to print once the crartidge is one year old, empty or not.
And install a complete useless 'printer software suite' which fills your register and harddrive with more useless crap.
And of course all those applics wants to load at sys startup ....
Me guess that HP is the champion of totally crap and needless printer software, but that's arguable.
Modern times ......
I
JUST
WANNA
PRINT
DAMNED
Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 7:41 pm
by wardrich
It'd be totally cool, Dosraider, if ink wasn't so damned expensive. What's up with that? Gotta be one HELL of a mark-up on it.
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 4:19 pm
by Wally
Very very bent spam post :/
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 4:49 pm
by dosraider
Wally= spoilsport, as usual.