Ubuntu compatible hardware

In the last months I faced several different hardware environments and experienced several issues when installing Ubuntu. For example: Since 2005 I always recommended NVidia and told people to better stay away from ATI. But lately I had problems with a machine with NVidia and on the other hand heard from a friend about an Ubuntu machine with ATI running flawlessly. So I started to fear for issues no matter what hardware I recommend.

I talked with several people and sent out emails and the result is a collection of links that help a lot. First of all - what I did not know - there is an Ubuntu certification for hardware - and there is more:

• Ubuntu-certified Hardware
  http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/
  
• Ubuntu Wiki - Hardware-Support
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/
  
• Linux-compatible hardware lists (GoingLinux-collection)
  http://goinglinux.com/articles/Resources.html#hardware-compatibility
  
• Linux Hardware Compatibility List (linux hcl)
  http://linuxhcl.org/
  
• Linux-Drivers.org
  http://www.linux-drivers.org/
  
• Ubuntuusers.de Hardwaredatenbank (German)
  http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Hardwaredatenbank
  
• Linux-Laptop
  http://www.linux-laptop.net/

And more hardware help is available here:

• Ubuntu Forums - Hardware section
  http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=332
  
• Ubuntuusers.de - Kaufberatung (German)
  http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/forum/grundlegende-fragen/
  
• Ubuntu-Austria Forum - Hardware section (German)
  http://www.ubuntu-austria.at/viewforum.php?f=13
  Note: This is not the official forum from Canonical, which can be found here (again hardware section): http://ubuntu-at.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=17

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