On 02/01/14 01:19, John R Pierce wrote: > for the original poster, who was asking on this thread which > motherboards would work, as the hardware.redhat.com site doesn't list > motherboards. > > and useless for me, when they don't include the major brand server > models I might be considering for work.
Just to make sure I understand the question again: PC and Servers hardware is suppose to be BIOS compatible? In a case that these do comply and Linux is not supporting BIOS it's another story. In the case that Linux do work with all BIOS systems by compiling it once I will consider myself living in the age of about 2 Millions years from now.(not about Linux but about human levels) Any Basic Input Output System requires testing once in a while! Any BIOS design should be compatible to run all software that is based on BIOS. Since not all hardware is made from the same piece of hardware it is assumed that some might not be compatible with Linux. My basic assumption is that if the manufacturer of the MB specifies that it's Linux Compatible it will be supported by somebody around the place you will buy the part from. There are places around the world which still use Windows 98 since it just works for them. The PC brands I know are: Packard-Bell, Gateway, Toshiba, HP, IBM, ASUS, INTEL, AMD, Biostar, GigaByte, IOMEGA, FUJITSU. I remember that I am missing some others but these are known to me for a working desktop for years. I also have seen lots of Custom Made\Compiled PC's which you cannot just "brand" them or even say "Chipset" X or else. IBM big servers for example do not work with any Linux version out of the box since it needs patches and Customization. How will you use Linux OS on a 512k CPUs for example? Every CPU and Chipset around the world was Customed made or designed by someone... A nice linux version I do like is Finnix which tends to work as a BIOS OS.(GUI is not BIOS). I would recommend on a specific hardware if really needed.. Eliezer _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
