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XS11E wrote:

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In article ,
(Codemutant) wrote:

I am planning to use asus motherboard with the in
build geforce. Do tell me tips to keep my amd cooler and in
perfect working condition.

Tip on asus if you plan to use linux:
http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html

Pure fiction written by someone with a grudge agains ASUS, see
my post under "Is this true about ASUS".

ASUS supports Linux to the same extent they support any other
OS, not at all.

The story is poorly laid out, of that there is no contest.
Whether it is fiction or not is another issue. It is also no
contest that Asus is benefitting from a Microsoft relantionship.

Personally, since this claim came out, I'm watching Asus more
carefully but I have not yet decided what the truth is.

If you were in business, wouldn't you choose the Lion's share over
a meager share? ASUS is in business to make money. Linux is for
the most part a GNU based OS, which is of course FREE. However,
I have never heard of any ASUS motherboard that couldn't run
Linux, at least not the most popular versions such as Mandrake or
Redhat. There are many versions of Linux out there, and there may
be some that won't run well on Gigabyte, or Supermicro, or maybe
MSI???

The whole thing is based on some whiner who wants ASUS to write
drivers for an OS that is not only fringe, but has many distro's.
Microsoft has basically 4 distro's they support. Windows 9x/ME
(one and the same basically), Windows 2000, and Windows XP,
Windows 2003 Server editions.

Now, let's be perfectly fair here, ASUS does NOT write drivers for ANY
OS. When I bought my ASUS motherboard it came with a CD full of
drivers written by the manufacturers of the devices on the motherboard
and provided to ASUS by those companies, NONE of the drivers were
written by ASUS.

If the open source community wanted to provide drivers for those
devices they have two choices, send them to ASUS and have ASUS make a
Linux driver CD or do as always, include the drivers in the distro.
Either way works fine but if the drivers are included in the distro
it's possible to miss one.

Having said that, let me point out that my ASUS K8V SE Deluxe is an
AMD64 motherboard and it uses some uncommon hardware for sound and for
the LAN. The Mandrake 64 bit edition supports this MB fully and
completely, the Mandrake 10.0 32 bit distro does not. It appears that
Mandrake (maybe others?) has tailored the 64bit distro to available
64bit motherboards and that works for me! It's MUCH easier and faster
to install Mandrake and have everything work than it is to install
Windows XP and have NOTHING work until I insert the provided CD and
install sound, LAN and chipset drivers.

My motherboard brand is Chaintech. While it comes with Windows
Drivers on the CD, it doesn't come with Linux drivers. Does this
mean they are anti-Linux? I don't think so. Over 90% of PC's run
Windows. Therefore, it makes since for them to include drivers for
Windows on it. But, I can get drivers for my motherboard from
NVIDIA, the maker of the chipset that is used on my motherboard.
NVIDIA also has Linux drivers too for this chipset.

And I'll bet all or most of the needed drivers are included in the
distro if you're running the latest version?