mcleodnine

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It's a pretty basic board and as such is well-supported with recent kernels. You're not gonna edit the next Star Wars trilogy on it, but they make great little servers with low power consumption and quiet (fanless!)

So far my only complaint is that the chipset heatsink fell off (?!) and knocked out the ehternet adapter. After a quick repair all was well again, but it's no fun when you have to on-site service a remote firewall.

frogman

No major problems, but it's a fileserver so I'm not exactly pushing the limits.

Very quiet and heatsink is cool enough to touch under load (3D benchmark before Mandrake was installed). Uses very little power.

Heatsink hasn't fallen off either.

Camarones

I've had this thing for two years now. In its previous life it ran OpenBSD 3.2 off a flash card. I recently installed a hard drive and Fedora Core 2.

Be aware that the FC2 ISOs do not have a compatible kernel with this CPU/mobo combo. You have to download a separate patched bootable ISO from the FC2 project to boot, then install as normal. This is documented in the FC2 bugzilla.

All the onboard devices were detected by the system properly. It only has a single PCI slot so I've only tested two PCI card, a dual 10/100 intel server NIC and a Netgear PCI wifi card. Both were fine.