On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:44:52AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Monday 12 January 2004 21:57, Ben Norcutt wrote:
Hi guys,
What are you recommendations on rock solid motherboard/cpu combos for linux? Thinking for server type setups onboard everything is ok as long as it's supported.
Avoid Nforce based chipsets, as you'll be stuck with Binary only drivers. (not so bad with an easily replaceable graphics card, more of a pain with a system board)
Oh god yeah, I had an Nforce 1 based board which only had generic IDE support in Linux and a non-free Lan driver, the performance of it really really sucked. Oh, and I didn't buy it, my boss did because it was 3 quid cheaper than the board I recommended so he thought he had "saved" money" but the 3 days it took me to get the thing stable were obviously "free".
Definetly avoid Nforce :)
Adam