On 17 Dec 2000, at 0:24, Druss the Mighty wrote:
> Anyone have any oppinions/experience with this?
>
> http://www.bp6.com/BP62%20copy1.jpg
My box at work has a BP-6 with 2 Celeron-366s and runs SuSE
6.4. I was under the impression that you couldn't put more than 2
Celerons on a board, though. The biggest Celerons you can put on
the board and get dual processing are 533s. Abit says you can
now put Dual PIIIs on the board (read their FAQ about this), but
there are stability issues.
My impressions are these-- 1) very stable, especially if you don't
overclock. 2) flash with the newest BIOS *before* you install Linux.
3) Gentus Linux ships with the board, and it bites. SuSE 6.4 and
higher supports the board. I did the install, downloaded the latest
Linus kernel, and patched it with Andre Hedrick's IDE driver patch
for support. 4) Gentus is built by Abit. They took various patches
by Andre Hedrick (all GPLed), incorporated them into the distro as
binaries, with some other stuff, and refused to release the source
back to Andre, even though he repeatedly requested it (this was in
May-June-- I don't know if they've released it to him by now). I
personally won't buy *any* Abit products, and wouldn't have bought
this one, unless I know Abit is not going to violate the GPL in such
manner again, they have released the source, and have
acknowledged violating the GPL, and have apologized to Mr.
Hedrick for violating the copyright of his code.
It's a shame, cause I really like Abit boards. For the power user
with hardware savvy, they're the most configurable and
overclockable boards going. They are also super stable.
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
--Noel Godin
