[ale] Linux friendly motherboad recommendations?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

That's good to know. I'm always a little reluctant to try one of the lesser known brands.. I remember the horrible SiS chipsets on some of the cheaper motherboards from 8-10 years ago.  I recently had to deal with one of those old systems, and I thought I would never get everything working 100%  I'm leaning toward the Gigabyte at the moment for this system...
Allen B.


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Allen Beddingfield
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Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 2:45 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Linux friendly motherboad recommendations?

I have an ASRock than is fairly weak. The onboard USB3 and external SATA are both using very weak/poor chips that have little support in the kernel. It's been a while since I built that system but I do clearly recall the "note to self: next time buy a better board" conversation.

The ASUS and Gigabyte systems I've built have all been pretty solid.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Calvin Harrigan <calvin.harrigan at gmail.com<mailto:calvin.harrigan at gmail.com>> wrote:
On 12/2/2013 3:18 PM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
I'm looking to build a new desktop at home, based on one of the AMD FX 8 core CPUs.  Microcenter has a few motherboards available as a bundle.  It comes down to MSI, ASRock (never heard of that brand), Gigabyte, and Asus.  I've had good luck with Gigabyte and Asus in the past.  Does anyone have any particular preference or opinion on those brands?  It will be for a Linux system running OpenSUSE.  I would expect any modern board to be okay on Linux support, but it has been a while since I have purchased a motherboard and I thought I would solicit some opinions!
Allen B.

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There are so many motherboard options, it's enough to spin your head.
What I do is stick with a trusted brand, MSI/ASUS/etc. Then make sure the chipset and peripherals are supported in the kernel.  The chipset meaning mostly the southbridge, onboard video if any, onboard audio if required and very importantly the onboard nic.

ASRock is downbranded Asus if I remember correctly...

Some links that might help:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport
http://linuxhcl.com/browse/search?category=7



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