HCL: check that your hardware is supported on your distro

Alejandro (a.k.a KZKG^Gaara)

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 All the Hardware Compatibility Lists (HCL) are often ignored by Linux users, who should heed this information before complaining that their computers do not work well with this or that distribution. We already know that hardware support in Linux has been somewhat limited at times, and although nowadays the compatibility with most components and peripherals is fantastic, it doesn't hurt to take a look at these lists.


Each distribution (at least in the case of large ones) usually has a document in which it is possible to keep track of the HCLs for that distribution, and in those lists we can check if our team -or the future computer on which we are thinking to install Linux- it is fully compatible at the hardware level with distribution.

I've done a quick search and I have found several of these HCL for different distributions:


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  1.   Juan Manuel Lopez placeholder image said
    ago 11 years

    Hello, how are you? I wanted to know if anyone could use a linux in an asus n61jv notebook, with nvidia optimus board, I can't make the battery last long in Ubuntu 12 or Sabayon 9, I hope you can help me, thanks.

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  2.   default said
    ago 11 years

    for linuxmint and ubuntu they don't open these addresses

    Reply to default