I did a search for Debian and Haswell (plus a couple of related searches) and found several helpful things. One was several posts on Phoronx (including http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM5MzU) that suggest support is pretty good. I have found several other posts on some Forums about Debian where people have had some trouble, but newer versions of the kernel usually sorted it out (but not always).
I will have to go back and make a list of the network controllers and audio chipsets on boards I am interested in and do some more searching. But overall, if I stay away from exotic hardware (assuming I recognize it when I see it :-)) I think this should work fairly well. There is one an area that I'm pretty unsure of. I am planning on purchasing a Nvidia video card and disabling the built in Intel video support. Since I plan to use this computer as a MythTV frontend/backend (as well as for general web browsing/email) getting the audio out on the Nvidia card's HDMI port is important to my particular setup. So will the audio automatically be switched to the Nvidia cards HDMI connector? I realize this question doesn't reference an actual hardware (what boards, what version, what sound system will be installed, etc), so if there is possibly anyway to generalize the answer that would be appreciated. At this point I can say I would let the Debian Installer install the default sound system, what ever that would be. I run 'Testing' on my current computer, but don't really need to, so may choose 'Stable' for the new hardware. Thanks, Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cancvmg14mc7p1r0g4auapw7jf6_2+mn4ya4fwcl5iujodfq...@mail.gmail.com
