Thanks Lennart (and others) for a very through explanation.
Sorry for abusing your time but I am going to buy a computer with the
following ingredients. I am quite worried that I might have to wait for
half a year for support of some of the chips so I decided to ask first
if someone has used this (with good or bad experience):
Motherboard: Intel (s775) Johannesburg DQ35JOE mATX
I have only used a few Intel boards myself, but I wouldn't buy one. I
only buy Asus boards. There has been a lot of trouble for people with
more than 3GB ram and getting the MTRR cache setup right on intel boards
in the last year, and it has taken a lot of pushing to even get intel to
admit they screwed up their bios, while Gigabyte and Asus had a new bios
within days of being notified of the mistake in intel's reference code.
Not what I would consider a well supported board. Most affected users
were windows 64bit users who got a very very slow system if they had
more than 3GB ram installed, and linux gets the same slow performance
since the top of ram is not cached and hence very slow.
The salesman knew this problem but said it was a problem with the 965 chip
but was solved with the Q35 chip. I hope he is right.
About the kernel, I most often end up installing Debian unstable and then
I wait for it to become stable if there are no problems. But on my main
computer I happily use unstable and experimental.
Cheers
Gudjon
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