What resources are available for building a cutting-edge Linux box?

Question

One of the problems with loving both Linux and sweet new hardware is that you're never sure what's supported (i.e. driver availability).

What are some of the best resources for determining if those shiny things in your shopping cart will work on your Linux distro?

Answer 1

I'd start with looking at your distro of choice's homepage.

Here's one hardware compatibility list:

http://www.linux-drivers.org/

Answer 2

These days, I've never really had an issue with hardware compatibility, and modern linux distros.