[clue-tech] Fried MoBo, suggestions for replacement?

[Dave Price]

Greetings,

On 4/23/05, katanacb at comcast.net <katanacb at comcast.net> wrote:

> Without trying to start any sort of flame war, I'm looking for suggestions on a  Linux-friendly replacement.   The one I had was a total nightmare when I first got it to setup under Linux, so I'm looking for suggestions as to what's out there that might work a little better or be easier to setup driver-wise.   (I've even thought about taking the plunge and getting a Mac, but that's a totally different thread......)

Chris,

You may indeed want to consider a Mac as a viable open-source solution. 

I am happily running a Mac as my primary (laptop) system.  Mac minis's
are also a great low-cost option.

Many GNU tools are built-in to OSX (BSD-based).  A lot of open-source
tools are readily available as native OSX applications (prebuilt).

For pure X, an X-Desktop is available free from Apple which runs right
on the OSX desktop, and the debian-based fink project has a lot of
packages which can be built from source.

I have not gone there yet, but you can also bypass OSX completely and
boot Linux-PPC instead.
(I have an AMD desktop/server for that).  

aloha,
dave