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Yeah, but 'full support for Ubuntu' doesn't necessarily mean 'full support for Linux'; I've learnt that the hard way.

• icebraining 12y ago
  What do you mean?
  • pwnna 12y ago
    Sometimes vendors will include proprietary kernel modules that's only licensed to Ubuntu or works only on Ubuntu. I think this happened to some broadcom chips.
    • icebraining 12y ago
      Can't they just be copied? It's not like other distros use a different kernel (maybe a different version, but that's usually easy to adapt to).
      • hobarrera 12y ago
        Copying binary kernel modules isn't guaranteed to work across kernel versions. There's a stable API, but not a stable ABI. Heck, Ubuntu's kernel actually has lots of patches, so unless you carry those along, the modules may even not-work on a same kernel version for some other distro.