[CentOS] Checking fan state

> The HW people are way ahead of the SW people? A good reason not to use
> the latest motherboards, with this technology, in production servers,
> at this time?

I thought things have always been like that with Linux?

But maybe the latest kernels have support for that stuff...Intel has 
been rather good at providing open source drivers for their stuff but 
they probably work with the mainline kernel.