hello, in the process of making the people foss aware, I got a contract from a semi gnu/linux aware NGO called uva. the problem however is that they already have a few p4 1.5 ghz computers running ubuntu 6.06 and they seam to have got stuck to it because as what the authorities told me, they get good support from the ubuntu forums when the needs come. now they have decided to buy new computers but are also aware (and sportingly except the fact ) that latest hardware may not work with ubuntu 6.06 lts. for them long time support matters really much and I did not really argue about that. since my recent experience with 102 ggc motherboards has not been good with ubuntu, I will like to know names of some motherboards which are available in the market that can work or have been successfully made to work with ubuntu. my requirements are as follows. 1. the boards should be actively supported and still sold in the hardware market. this is because if by chance there is a problem with those boards I must get relatively quick service. 2. the boards should support seluron 2.8 ghz and p4 3 + ghz processors. 3. I will be of course putting 512 mb of ram into the machine. 4. ubuntu should be known to detect and install the on-board sound card. 5. the lan card should also work. I gave all this details because I don't want to go through the troma of my recent experiences (ronny knows very well what I am talking isn't it?) It seams that the place where I tried the ggc mobo gave so many problems that they eventually have postponed the decision a bit for the next ubuntu version. any ways the point is that I have a hint that mobos which came in market before june 2006 or aug 2006 at the most should be well supported. I want to be with the debian group of distros because ceneors like jtd have justified the reasons to do so. regards. Krishnakant.
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