[Bradford] linux friendly mother boards

[Richard Thomas]

hiya

thanks for the offer of temp hardware loan's (david & bytey) I might take
you up on that
but at the moment I'm rocking the house with a 400mhz ppc G3 Mac with a epic
640mb of ram
i shudder at the power of this beast!!! :-/

but if i get sick of OS X or none of the keys matching up to the keyboard or
FF taking longer to load then the whole mac does to boot  i'll give you a
shout

as for fsf listed mother boards :D
oh how iI would love a mother board where i could replace the bios with a
free/linux one
that would be pretty sweet. :D  (geek)

could of made loads of funny(ish) Dr who related comments about you having a
TIME machine David


Dick


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:46 PM, David Carpenter <
david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk> wrote:

> The Free Software Foundation has a resource for hardware that works with
> Linux -  even stuff with a free BIOS.
> http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw
>
> For motherboards specifically:
> http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/systems
>
> By the way I've got that old TIME machine sitting around taking space. I
> put GNewSense on it and everything worked (that I tried!) (Richard)
> You're welcome to it, and if he doesn't want it I am looking for a good
> home for it. I'll sort out the spec and post it if anyone's interested.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 18:26 +0000, Wayne Hanley wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I've not tried with that specific bundle but I generally go with intel
> > boards and cpu's the 945 upwards it very good and I've not had any
> > problems running linux on them.  As for graphics cards I recently
> > built a media centre in the living room around a Asus P5SD2-VM and a
> > nvidia 9series gfx card and all is well with that combo (though xbmc
> > is unstable but I'm sure thats a software issue  with that app as
> > others are fine on it).
> >
> > Give me a shout if you need a hook up on spare box for a while I'm
> > sure I have enough parts kicking around at home to hack a box together
> > than will get you back online.
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Richard Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >         hiya
> >         1st of all sorry if the formating of this email is foobar it
> >         has been sent from a nokia mobile phone, not a real email
> >         client
> >         as i no longer have full time access to a working pc and the
> >         mac is too slow to use with in my lifetime
> >
> >
> >         my bios/mother board finally died a few days ago
> >         so I'm in the market for a new mother board/cpu/gfx card setup
> >
> >
> >         i've seen one at ccl (sorry if url is foobar not very easy to
> >         cut n paste on mobile)
> >
> http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=22687&category_id=491&manufacturer_id=0&tid=mbb0020
> >
> >
> >
> >         has any body had experience with this setup gfx, sound etc
> >         does it work with linux (ubuntu)
> >         or do you know of a better deal from another company
> >
> >
> >         any suggestions  would be fantastic
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         Dick
> >
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