Ubuntu Hardware Compatibility List

[mduduzi]

I've installed Ubuntu on three computers two of which are notebooks. I've never been this happy with hardware detection and configuration on any other distro --Suse 9.1 was the best till the days of Ubuntu came.

There are many Hardware Compatibility Lists (HCL) on the Internet but they are not particularly useful for accellerating the adoption of Ubuntu. I'm proposing a one stop place where a potential adopter will simply look to see whether there is anyone else who had a strictly 'out-the-box' success with certain hardware, if so, the rest is history.
I've been building, maintaining computers for SMEs for a while and NEVER have I had it so 'nothing to configure' with hardware -from DOS 3.2 to WinXPSP2 and Win2003. This brilliance of Ubuntu needs to be given proper recognition --clearly genius is at work in this Distro and we need to highlight such things -maybe, just maybe, other Distros will catch-on.

Another benefit of such a list is that it will help steer our segment of the hardware market away from the hardware makers that have sold themselves to Redmond and refuse to co-operate with the community at large.