Motherboard Recommendations, and a hello...

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 1, 2007, at 16:53, Gary Kaufman wrote:

> I've had
> great experiences with ASUS, but the reports I've seen
> on the web for Ubuntu and the ASUS P5B Deluxe have
> been mixed.  On-board graphics would be fine as my
> needs are very modest.

Avoid the ASUS motherboards that use the ATI chipsets.  I have an  
ASUS system that I bought for a MythTV box which has ATI everything  
(video, IDE controller, bus controller, you name it) and driver  
support for linux was discontinued one year after the new model came  
out.  The video drivers are not open source, so this is a problem.   
The IDE controller is also buggy, as is the kernel driver for it.

In recent years I've had the best luck with Intel motherboards.  I  
used to like Tyan, but haven't seen many recently.  If you need a  
video card, nVidia seems to suck less.

-Bill

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