On Monday 12 Jan 2004 10:25 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-01-12 21:57:19 +0000 Ben Norcutt ben@plextech.co.uk
wrote:
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 PC-Chips.
That's interesting - can you give more details? They do some very cheap boards that do get good reviews (but maybe the fact that they are so cheap is the problem?)
Gigabyte seem OK.
FWIW, the technician at my current school (who seems to know what he is doing) uses Gigabyte for the boxes he rebuilds there, on cost/reliability grounds.
I put a Tyan in a recent server and that works well, but you have to forage for drivers for some of it. Most of my kit is probably too old to be relevant now, anyway. How quickly things change...
Are/were there some issues with certain VIA chipsets and linuxfairly recently? More info/advice on that would be useful if anyone has some.
Syd