My Hardware
This is the break down of the main hardware in my system:
- ASUS A8N5x Socket 939 Motherboard
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200
- 2.5GB DDR RAM
- ASUS Nvidia GeFource 6200 256MB PCI-E video card
- LSI Megatrends 150-4 SATA RAID Card
- 3 x 320GB SATA configured in a RAID 5 Array
- Epson Perfection 3590 Photo Scanner
- Canon Pixma IP5000 printer
The only piece of hardware that has specifically been chosen to work with Linux is the LSI Megatrends 150-4 SATA RAID card. I discovered that most of the RAID provided on motherboards is referred to as Fake Raid which requires software drivers in conjunction with the hardware. Unfortunately there are not many (or maybe any) that are supported under Linux so I decided to find a cheap hardware RAID card that was supported.
All in all Ubuntu 7.04 and Ubuntu 7.10 worked out of the box with the above hardware, with one exception. The Epson Perfection 3590 Photo Scanner. Doing research it appears that there are not many of the modern day scanners supported under Linux, which is a real shame. I however will keep searching to see if I can find a solution and get this scanner working.
In general I am impressed with the hardware detection. I have installed Ubuntu 7.10 on a cheap Chinese laptop that is about 4 years old and it works perfectly, including the wireless card! So I would certainly not hesitate anybody giving it a go!