Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Jun 2007 14:12 UTC, submitted by David Lin


I can't tell you how many hours I have spent finding out if a desktop will run linux or not. Knowing right off the back if a driver is supported or not will save (me at least) many hours of anguish
Once OpenSound has been merged into OpenSolaris, you'll find that 9/10 your hardware will be supported out of the box; the only thing that it doesn't support on this machine is the built in webcam - considering that I only ever used it once (and the quality was crap at best), I haven't lost any functionality in the process.
Check Tool for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions:
1) Put the LiveCD in the cup holder
2) Reboot
3) Verify that your hardware works
4) Click on the Install icon
Sun should consider developing a full-fledged Solaris LiveCD. Perhaps the Check Tool is a step toward this goal.
pfft this news is so old why is it even on OSNEWS
JAVA new tool run from within windows linux etc.
Since open sound is now released under the new licence the tool will pick up majority of sound hardware soon yay.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html
RE: pfft java version is out... old news
by harcalion on Tue 12th Jun 2007 15:17 UTC
in reply to "pfft java version is out... old news"