On Jul 13, 7:11 pm, TorNorbye <tor.nor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sure most devices work with Linux -- especially if the devices > aren't new. The story from some other post in this thread of somebody > taking their 5 year old system and hooking it up to Ubuntu flawlessly > didn't surprise me in the least. But where you can run into trouble is > if you buy a brand new top of the line graphics card, or something > obscure like a fingerprint validator. > sorry but thats not true at all ;) Latest Nvidia hardware had never been a problem on linux in fact i am running right now a dual head on a GTX295 (which is the top model) and latest drivers. OpenGL 3.1, OpenCL 1.0 everything works. No additonal Printer/Scanner dirver was required also it just worked on ubuntu. The only part which is still sometimes a bit tricky is to properly configure a surround system (e.g for a linux media center) but after a bit googling this worked for me too.
Even if you go further and think about ssd storage, linux is probably the way to go. BtrFS... or log based file systems are all more sophisticated than an emulator driver which emulates a cylinder/sector based medium on top of the sdd for being compatible with the os. (but yeah most of them are experimental) I have a dualboot system for fallback because i was sceptical at the beginning too but i haven't booted windows for at least 3 years now - I am wondering if it still works ;) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
