Fried motherboard replacement?

[Craig Adams]

Hi,

I work by a simple policy: Those vendors who support Free Software and
GNU/Linux best, get my support (and money) first.

Seeing that you do not have a preference for vendor....

Which mainboard manufacturer best supports GNU/Linux and other Free
Software?

Asus have a very bad track record when it comes to this to the point of
being quite rude. With developments in the far east though, this may
change.

Regards

Craig A.

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 20:14 +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> My computer guy tells me that there is a high probability my Soyo
> Dragon Plus! motherboard is fried and that I should start shopping
> around for a new one. Naturally, my first question is what works well
> with Linux? While my experience tells me that it changes slightly from
> distro to distro, there are some general rules. As an example, my Soyo
> board never worked that well in general with Linux. I don't want to go
> all the way and get an AMD 64 bit capable processor and board as AMD
> has a rep for being difficult to get to work well. Not my experience,
> but if no one here in Jakarta will touch AMD with the proverbial 10
> foot pole... My computer guy recommends Asus, but I have no idea if
> they are the bees knees in Linux or what. Are any of the new Intel
> motherboards any good in Linux? If nothing else, can someone direct me
> to a URL where I can find recommendations?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian
>