"Worst" hardware in Linux

Article title: "worst" hardware in Linux. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

For a long time, people have always been cautious about the compatibility between the hardware platform and the released version to be installed before installing Linux-the "Hardware Compatibility List" is always found in the release documents of each Linux release", pay attention to devices that are frequently blacklisted.

1. Broadcom wireless devices are a highly sophisticated product line, and even some laptop manufacturers (HP, Compaq) use it as a cost-effective wireless network device. Not only is it based on its relatively low-cost chipset (the cheapest Nic on some C2C websites may be Broadcom products), but it is relatively superior in sensitivity. However, this cannot cover up the poor performance of Broadcom in Linux: BCP43XX, its fist product, has its only Windows driver, so that Linux users only use the Alpha driver, therefore, hardware-driven VPC is its biggest problem.

2. the outstanding performance of ATI graphics in Windows games masks complaints from major Linux Publishers: Mark Shuttleworth's Ubuntu Linux; many friends who installed ATI graphics on Solidot complained about this. The main reason is that ATI adopted a more strict driver proprietary protocol than Broadcom.

3. as a result, Seagate's hard drive is made up of three muskeys. it is also cheap. the problem of Seagate is not just about proprietary drivers, the "Free Agent" launched by Seagate at the end of last year is incompatible with Linux, leading to poor reading of hard disk data, as well as potential damage to the hard disk, the financial department of Seagate is under great pressure.

4. win Modem may not have heard of some Geeks ("soft cat" is very popular when broadband is not as overwhelming as it is now. In any case, there is such a project to redeploy and optimize the continuation of Win Modem in Linux, and the Geeks keen on DSP can try to participate.