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Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Motherboard Manufacturers?

Posted by Soulskill on from the soldering-iron-and-a-chunk-of-silicon dept.

dotancohen writes "I am tasked with building a few Linux machines for a small office. However, many the currently available motherboards seem to be Linux-hostile. For instance, in addition to the whole UEFI issue, my last install was a three-day affair due to the motherboard reporting a Linux-supported ethernet device (the common RTL8168) while it was actually using a GbE Ethernet device that does not work with the legacy drivers and didn't even work with a test Windows 7 install until the driver disk was installed. There are no current hardware compatibility lists for Debian or Ubuntu and I've received from Asus and Gigabyte the expected reply: No official Linux support, install Windows for best experience. I even turned to the two large local computer vendors, asking if they could provide Linux-compatible machines ready to go, but neither of them would be of any help. What globally-available motherboards or motherboard manufacturers can you recommend today?"

6 of 352 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Raspberry Pi by tonywestonuk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Commenting to remove crap moderation! Pfff....Slashdot, why cant I change my mind!

  2. Re:Raspberry Pi by NFN_NLN · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "...my last install was a three-day affair due to the motherboard reporting a Linux-supported ethernet device (the common RTL8168) while it was actually using a GbE Ethernet device that does not work with the legacy drivers"

    So how much money did this journey save the company? Just slap in an intel card and be done with it for f's sake! Then it will support proper VLANs, jumbo frames and probably just work smoother than some cheap onboard NIC anyways.

  3. Re:Hardware to support software? by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When vendors don't publish drivers or specs how is that supposed to happen?

    Hardware is dime a dozen these days. If I can't run the OS I want on it, I will not buy it.

  4. Re:Raspberry Pi by jedidiah · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...or just buy from a Linux vendor.

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  5. Re:Raspberry Pi by aergern · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stop being a troll. You know full and well that Linux is the server of choice for most large sites. Moron.

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  6. Re:Raspberry Pi by styrotech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's an odd post. You seem to have all kinds of in depth knowledge about UEFI boot processes, how Linux screws it up, and how to patch it etc.

    But then you don't seem to know some really mundane easy stuff like: Flash actually works just fine* on a 64bit Linux system.

    * By that I mean as well as it does on a 32bit Linux system at least.