Re: Motherboard recommendation?
Michael Rumpf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to buy a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend a board that is
> known to work well with free software drivers. I just don't want to buy
> another board and find myself disabling most of the features as they
> don't work under Linux.
I don't have a recommendation, but i can disrecommend the NVIDIA nForce2
chipset from a free software perspective. The NIC has a closed source
driver. When i emailed them about it, the response was, "Our networking
performance is too important to allow competitors to use our drivers."
I disabled the on-board NIC and bought a $20 RTL-8139. :-)
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