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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard support?
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:37:57
Message-Id: CAC=wYCGtvFCLnAPXYc0ZrNeLuj9NTqY+jL_4QcfgHrzKri9Mnw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard support? by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 >> How good is Linux support with those? If bad, what other mobos support
2 >> 1075T and Linux support is awesome?
3 >
4 > most probably they will just work.
5
6 I've just built a machine based on GA-880-GM-UD2H that I bought a
7 couple of years ago, and it works well. It supports 1090T and 1100T,
8 which you should look at - the price difference to the 1075T is very
9 small. I'm thinking of swapping out the 260 I have with one of these
10 because they're so cheap.
11
12 WRT hardware support - the rule of thumb is, if you're running newly
13 released hardware you'll probably want to run the latest kernel you
14 can - which is easy with Gentoo. AFAIK distros dont do much around
15 extra hardware support other than backporting newer drivers (to
16 support newly released hardware) on their specific kernel version.
17 Obviously there's no need for that on Gentoo.