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In article <493s00$pf0@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>,
nukm010@wrzx12.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rudolf THILO) wrote:

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> -Is there somewhere a list telling about certain hardware components
>  which work / do not work with Linux, where I can look that
>  up on my own? (before buying stuff that would not work... )

Lists of compatible hardware can usually be found in the appropriate HOWTO
documents. For example, the CDROM-HOWTO contains a list of CDROM drives
that are known to work under Linux.

The only slight problem here is that some of the HOWTO files are beginning
to look a little bit dated --- i.e. they are no longer complete lists of
compatible hardware as they were often last updated a year (or more) ago.
For example, the CDROM-HOWTO doesn't cover quad-speed CDROM drives (or, at
least, it didn't last time I needed to read it). Nevertheless, they are an
excellent place to start looking.

> 
> -What would have been the way to find that list?
>                (tryed with Lynx (lycosearch) and the tin-newsreader)

All of the HOWTO files are at sunsite.unc.edu, but that is a heavily used
site, so you should just log in there (by anonymous ftp) and grab the file
called MIRRORS (I _think_ it is in the directory /pub/Linux). This will
give you the closest mirror site to peruse.

Of course, any self-respecting Linux distribution disks (Slackware,
RedHat, Yggdrasil, etc) should also contain all of these documentation
files.

Hope this helps,

Malcolm Tredinnick

ceNTRe for Number Theory Research
School of MPCE
Macquarie University
North Ryde NSW 2109
Australia