Linux will also run on a number of laptop machines (some laptops use certain software interrupts to power the memory, and Linux doesn't work well with these systems to date). The best way to find out if Linux will run on your hardware is just to try it out.
At the time of writing, Linux doesn't run on an IBM PS/2 computer.
There are other hardware drivers currently under development for Linux. To use these drivers, however, you usually have to patch them into your kernel code, which assumes that you already have a running Linux system (a kind of chicken-and-egg problem if you have not already installed Linux). In such cases, you can install whatever Linux you happen to have and then apply the patches with the Linux patch command.
Then there is the issue of tape drives for Linux. There is a working QIC-02 device driver for Linux, supporting Everex/Wangtek cards. There are additional patches for the QIC-02 to support Archive SC402/499R. You can find them in /pub/linux/alpha/qic-02 directory at tsx-11.mit.edu server. (There have been reports of some bugs in the driver, but you can back up and restore.)
Most of the newer tape drivers are all for SCSI drives, so if you have a SCSI tape drive, chances are that it is supported.
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