Your best bet is going to be a motherboard that uses a via chipset (as apposed to an nvidea one)If you don't use a soundcard, check that the onboard soundchip on a via baord works under Mandrake. Some boards have really cruddy soundchips that require not only that you install a bunch of drivers (in Windows, anyway) but install them in the right order and before you install various other drivers. I couldn't get my mother's sound chip to work under Linux - but there again I couldn't get it to work under Windows either ;-)
As these are very well supported under linux. Maybe your best going for a KT400 instead of the newer KT600 as linux is always a little behind in supporting new features.
As most motherboard manufacturers stick to the standard chipset from via and don't substitute them for others everything should work out the box. It's only when the manufacturer decides that sticking some cheep network/sound/<name_of_device_here> chip instead that people have problems in linux.
Also people can have trouble with Nvideas stuff as they require drivers which aren't GPLd (IFAIK) which means if you try and change your kernel without setting up your drivers again linux won't boot up :(
I think that was everything. In short buy a very popular board that uses a via chipset as more linux people will use them and write drivers for them. ;)
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