Generally speaking, most "regular" hardware is supported by Linux. This
includes almost all IDE and SCSI devices, most popular video cards, including
AGP video, and most printers. Almost all network cards are supported.
Because of the explosion of new hardware devices, the latest hardware list is
woefully out of date.
What is generally not supported are things that require Windows 95/98 to
operate, such as Winmodems and "Win" printers. Also, USB support is in its
infancy, so it is effectively unsupported.
Linux supports OpenGL and a subset of GLIDE called Mesa.
There are almost as many UNIX file systems as there are versions of UNIX.
Linux supports several of them and has its own file system, the Second Extended
File System.
There is not a registry like the Windows registry. Almost all aspects of Linux
are controlled by configuration files which, unfortunately, tend to be
scattered around the system. But updating the system, so long as you are
updating it with a distribution from the same publisher, is generally a safe
process because the configuration files are in known locations.
Quake 3 is designed for Linux. CivIII is either just about to be released or
is being released. Quake II is available for Linux. You can check at sites
like http://www.linux.com, http://www.linuxtoday.com and
http://www.32bitsonline.com for the latest information on Linux. Also,
http://www.slashdot.org carries cutting edge Linux news, among other stuff.
Drew Dunn
On Fri, 21 May 1999, you wrote:
> Hello all,
> Can someone answer my Linux questions?
> 1) Is Linux hard to hardware like NT does? Can most NT hardware work for
> Linux? Any HCL for Linux I can find? If so, could someone give me the
> address?
> 2) What 3D API does Linux support (eg. OpenGL)?
> 3) Is there any difference between Linux file system and Unix file
> system?
> 4) When update Linux system, is it easy to do so? Are there any special
> Linux files act like registry files for win9x?
> 5) This question maybe off topic, but any games (I mean 3D games such
> like Q3) designed for Linux? <I know Linux is not designed for games,
> but if Linux wants to replace M$ in householder market, it must be able
> to play games.>
>
> TIA
>
> Jun Qian
>
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