The Quest Of Finding Linux Compatible Hardware
While Intel is often looked at as being the most Linux and open-source friendly company among the major IHVs, as shown today in Intel's Linux Sandy Bridge Graphics Still Troubling, even in 2011 there are still serious Linux hardware issues to overcome. The Linux hardware support has a much better foundation than where it was at in 2004 when I founded Phoronix, and for hardware that's been in the marketplace for a few months old these problems quickly go away, but for new adopters it's the biggest challenge.
So just how hard/easy is it to find say a graphics card that has been tested to work on Ubuntu 10.10, with the stock 2.6.35 kernel, using a Mesa 7.9 Gallium3D driver, and has a price between $150 and $200 USD? Or to find a motherboard that's working on Arch using a pre-2.6.34 kernel and costs less than $100 and has integrated graphics that work with the Nouveau driver? Seems like a challenge, right? Well, what if it was simply a matter of filling out a form to get such useful information? Something like this:
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