The problem isn't so much the chipset, but the onboard peripherals such as the NIC. Yes, I have had quite a hard time with an onboard NIC, and the board didn't even have a PCI slot to put a network card into.
Thank you. Two years ago I build my current desktop, and everything worked fine. This summer I built the mother-in-law's home system and had a terrible time with the 1000 MBit ethernet controller as the driver has not yet been including in the Linux kernel, and to make it worse the board was reporting a different controller whose driver was in the kernel!
I know that there are Gigabyte *77* boards available locally, I will look at those. Thank you very much.
ashkenazi jews are the scum of the earth and need to be brutally exterminated. I would personally like to also be involved in their extermination.
Thank you, that was very insightful. Would you suggest gas showers right as we get off the train, or is it better to work us to death first? Would you suggest shooting rockets at Jewish cities, or getting the bombs right on the bus?
I appreciate your contribution to the conversation.
Isn't the software suppose to support the hardware?
Isn't the husband supposed to support the wife?
I think that this is a two-way street.
Thank you, finally an informative answer! I will see from where I might acquire an Intel motherboard locally. I don't think that I've ever come across an Intel board to be honest, so I have a suspicion that they are not sold here.
Agreed. I normally end up with an Asus workstation board with an Intel NIC chipset and it's always worked out fine.. and your point is well taken. I vetted it through Google (and Newegg's customer feedback) before pulling the trigger.
I've never had a problem with an Intel chipset, but as mentioned in the OP I've had issues with the LAN drivers. Also, UEFI is a potential stumbling block.
I've searched google and I've consulted the national LUG. Importing a motherboard is prohibitively expensive, and importing a ready computer is ridiculous. Our national computer stores are mostly stocked with Asus and Gigabyte boards, and both those companies are now Linux-hostile. I would love to find any specific board that is known to work (for now), but also I would like to know which manufactures I could trust for now and in the reasonable future. System76 and Zareason are not motherboard manufacturers.
...or just buy from a Linux vendor.
...which don't seem to exist locally. The national LUG couldn't even suggest a local vendor from which to buy Linux-friendly parts.
"I am tasked with building a few Linux machines for a small office." I'm not sure how much your labor is worth but you can buy a built server on the cheap ($599).
Thanks. I should have mentioned that these will be desktop workstations, not servers. The company servers are actually on Amazon Web Services (EC2) and let me take this opportunity to say how happy I am with that decision!
Stop being a troll. You know full and well that Linux is the server of choice for most large sites. Moron.
Actually, these are desktop machines for a small office. Windows is a viable choice, if one can consider the Windows ecosystem viable. At least all the software that we will be using is in fact available for Windows.
...or just install a real OS.
I know that you're trolling, but there is definitely a push to just 'install Windows' due to the lack of a viable motherboard. If I were a weaker man, and there are plenty of weaker men, installing Windows would be the 'solution'.
So how much money did this journey save the company?
Submitter here. The three-day affair was my mother-in-law's machine, not a work machine. I agree that just throwing the motherboard in the trash and starting over with a known-good board would have been better, but the fact remains that there are no known-good boards anymore. Hence, this Ask Slashdot question.
While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, researchers say they've proved he was right.
Any given program will expand to fill available memory.
