[Gllug] Quad Core Desktop Motherboard

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 06:15:35PM +0000, Ken Smith wrote:
> Hi, It would seem that this would have been a question that would have 
> been asked 1000 times before but I can't see it in the archives.
> 
> My desktop system is due for a new life and I'd like to replace it with 
> something quickish. I plan to run Centos 5 on it plus VMware. I have 
> used several ASUS MB's before and they seem OK.

I don't think there should be any problem.  Make sure you start with
the most recent version of CentOS 5 (ie. RHEL 5.2 or 5.3 depending on
when you get around to installing it).

I have to ask, though, why on earth VMware?

> Any gotcha's to avoid? I read about the P5Q being tricky with Centos4 
> but that's a bit old now. I recall on my current MB (P4P800) the 
> Ethernet chip and the second IDE controller wasn't supported until 
> around 2.6.12 or so.   I would like to avoid need to compile up drivers 
> if I can avoid it and for the sound to work....

RHEL 5 is based on 2.6.18, plus the huge amount of work that we spend
on backporting drivers from > 2.6.18, so I really don't think you will
have a problem.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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