John Summerfield spake the following on 3/14/2007 3:24 PM:
Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
Slightly OT, but what are the best boards for CentOS (if any) and how do ECS boards stack up?
(Yeah, I know they're cheap, but my budget is EXTREMELY limited for home machines. I just got an ECS NFORCE4M-A with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800MHz and 2Gb of 800 MHz OCZ memory, plus a geFORCE 7100ds video board cuz the ECS doesn't have an AGP slop for my aging current video card. Comments welcome.)
Sounds like you're committed now. The time to ask was before; now your best guage is experience. If you haven't installed yet, test with a live distro (is there a CentOS Live? I think there is). Knoppix is good, any of the ubuntu versions & releases comes as a pair of images/CDs, one is an installable live system, the other the more tradidional text-mode install cd.
Thanks - reply directly if you don't think this belongs here.
It's good to stay here for sanity checking/debating the point and for those who might find it in the archive. It's annoying to google a problem, find the question and no answer.
The centos live CD would be the best test, as the other live cd's probably have a much newer kernel and better hardware support.