[CentOS] list of supported hardware

I've also found it to be a good rule of thumb to not purchase motherboards
that are using technology that have been out for less than a year or so.
This is more applicable to "desktop/consumer grade" systems rather than
"server grade" systems, since the latter don't tend to use a given 
technology until it has been out for a while anyway.

Conversely, if you're deploying on an arbitrary x86 system that is more
than a
year and a half old (excluding laptops, which are sometimes more
problematic),
then most things usually work out of the box.  Again, this is just rule of
thumb;
nothing beats testing with the actual hardware if you can.

Devin