On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:18:56PM -0400, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote: > For motherboard brands, are some better for Linux and reliability in > general than others? Tyan as one definite ace in its sleeve that I appreciate much, and that you may appreciate or not: They support LinuxBIOS on all their Opteron motherbords; see http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Products#Tyan_Computer and http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Supported_Motherboards#Tyan -- Lionel