[mythtv-users] Motherboards: help me understand my choices

[Sixten Otto]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Owen Townend <owen.townend at gmail.com> wrote:
> The real trend-setter here is Intel.  They do not make discrete
> graphics cards[0], they have always stuck to integrated workstation
> graphics.  Their drivers are open source and work across _many_
> platforms.  They're not renowned for 3D gaming etc, but they 'just
> work'.  For 2D work such as mythtv not having great 3D support is like
> (oblig car analogy) not having a spoiler and alloy rims on a dump
> truck.

I'll ask you the same question: are there chipsets (board and/or
graphics) among the Intel offerings that are known to work better
under Linux than others?

I'm not planning to use this box for anything that would require much
3D performance, so I don't think there are any worries there.

Sixten