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. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list