Fancy New Computer: Will it work with linux?

[Net Llama!]

On 12/15/02 20:24, Bob Raymond wrote:
> On Monday 16 December 2002 04:16 am, Net Llama! wrote:
>> On 12/15/02 18:42, Bob Raymond wrote:
>> > On Monday 16 December 2002 02:31 am, Net Llama! wrote:
>> >> My experiences with Asus haven't been all that stellar.  They tend to
>> >> cut corners with specs which results in unreliable hardware when pushed
>> >> to its limits.  Also SiS makes hardware that is notiriously incompatible
>> >> with Linux.
>> >
>> > I really don't know of a good mb manufacturer to turn to- I have one
>> > complaint with my EPoX board, and that's with its shutdown/reboot
>> > abilities- I have to shut off the power supply when rebooting, otherwise
>> > the USB ports don't initialize.
>>
>> I've had very good experiences with both Tyan & Intel for mobos.
> 
> Could you name a decent Athlon option from either one that supports stuff like 
> PC3200 DDR, IDE RAID, a good 4 GB of RAM, and 6 USB 2.0 ports?  I actually 
> think it's just EPoX's 8K5A3+ that's a lemon board, though I did have the 
> problem that my reset button didn't work with the 8KTA3Pro once I upgraded 
> from Radeon VE to Radeon 8500

Those are some rather non-traditional requirements you have there. 
Generally speaking anything over 2GB is a server board, not a desktop 
board, and USB ports aren't something you find on server boards, at 
least not in high numbers.  Then again, why do you need 6 onboard USB 
ports?  USB muliplexors are relatively cheap.  At any rate, here are the 
current Tyan offerings for AMD chips:
http://tyan.com/products/html/athlon.html

Needless to say, Intel doesn't make boards for AMD products.

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