Thank you for telling me this! I use ubuntu every day and will soon be upgrading to 10.04 so I wanted to know anything that might cause trouble.
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> > Ubuntu, Mint, Siddux, Mepis, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva--most of these should
> > run on almost any hardware you throw at them.
>
> The nice thing I've found with Ubuntu (and the Ubuntu based distros)
> is that they make it a lot easier to install proprietary drives when
> you need to. For example, the Broadcom wireless cards... Ubuntu 9.10
> and 10.04 actually asked me during install (via the hardware-drivers
> tool in the live environment) if I wanted to run the proprietary
> Broadcom drivers instead of the open source ones, and so two clicks
> and I was up and running on a Broadcom wireless card that had been,
> until that point, a real PITA to get running.
>
> Not sure if it's still kept up to date, but, you can check out
> http://linux-
> interested in. You can usually find install instructions, things to
> watch out for, and tips for working around problems on various laptop
> models.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
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