[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: linux-friendly motherboard -- nVidia AMD64 drivers are of high quality

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:34, jm wrote:
> i'm going to build a desktop and i'd like to get a motherboard that will 
> be as linux compatible as possible. i'm not sure some functionalities 
> (such as graphics accel.) have been completely ported to the 64-bit 
> world so i'm limiting myself to 32-bit for now, and AMD processors.

nVidia has had completely working Linux/x86-64 drivers for over 6 months
now.  Heck, they just came out with new drivers yesterday:  
  http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-6629.html  

AnandTech has benchmarked UT2004 and a few other games/apps on
Linux/x86-64 using SuSE's AMD64 release with the nVidia drivers.

Understand Linux/x86-64 on Opteron is being used as _the_ platform for
game and engineering development.  Why?  Because most game and
engineering workstations are using more than 4GB, and Xeon (even IA-32e)
has a serious performance issue beyond 4GB.

> it's been quite a while since i've paid attention to hardware specs so 
> i'm not sure what's what any more; any suggestions or leads to 
> comparisons will be greatly appreciated.

I have posted probably 50 times over the last 4 months on this list:  
  http://www.matrixlist.com/mailman/listinfo/pc_support  

Check out the archives for the last few months and I'm sure some of your
questions will get answered.  Otherwise, use Google's site specific
search:  
http://www.google.com/search?as_sitesearch=lists.leap-cf.org%2Fpipermail%2Fpc_support


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Bryan J. Smith                                  b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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