Which board and distro do you use?

[BIM2k]

Will all of you nForcing Linux please stand up and be counted With this poll, please select the distro which you use most often, and optionally leave a message stating which nForce board you have, and whether you are using a stock distro or a custom kernel.

This feedback will be forwarded to/monitored by nVidia. Please keep your posts to the point, as this will help statistics and make for easier reading. Any flames / offtopic posts will be removed without warning

[edited by pzgren: poll time forever]

[blueworm]

Asus A7N8X rev 1.04 bios 1004
Linux-2.6.2 vanilla kernel.
Gentoo.

EDIT:
Linux-2.6.2-mm1 kernel.

[Kenneth]

MSI K7N420Pro motherboard+SB128pci sound card as the Nforce sound became distorted after a year of use.

/Kenneth

[pzgren]

Abit NF7-S V2

Fedora Core 2 Test2 / Rawhide
GCC 3.3.3 libc-2.3.3 NPTL

Also EDIT: kernel 2.6.6-rc1

Marcus

[Dart]

I don't have my board yet, it's not a matter of if just a matter of when. D3 isn't coming out for another month or two so why not wait to see if prices will drop a bit? The credit card is warmed up and idling in the background.

My board will be a Shuttle AN50R with the Nforce3 chipset. I've used Shuttle boards for years with 0 problems. I've looked at all the boards (including the VIA ones) and come to the conclusion the Shuttle has the best price/layout/features for my needs. Raid 0 is a big plus, 2 more ports would have been better. I chose to support the Nforce3 chipset because Nvidia chooses to support me as a Linux user.

My vid will be a 5900 FX for the same reason.

I use Mandrake as my distro. I was considering Gentoo but after lurking on their IRC channel last night for a while I'm less inclined to do that. Maybe a bit unfair but I usually end up downloading and compiling my own stuff anyway and I like my install to be done in short order.

My kernel is always custom as are my settings. Tweaked for speed is the order of the day around here.

Note to Nvidia: I like total control over any software I install as well as a chance to examine the freshly compiled stuff before I install it. The single "make install" manual option would have been much better if you had included a "make" option as well IMHO. A single flag that combines --nonetwork --keep --no-rpms -a -n would be much appreciated.

Edit: BTW, if there were a standalone soundcard with the Nforce2 APU that was completely hardware driven I'd probably buy that too. I'll be disabling the realtek onboard sound in favor of a real soundcard.

[geoaxis]

Leadtek KNCR18D-PRO
Gentoo 2.4.22-r5
and ATI radeon 9000 PRO

so i dont have a stable linux distribution for 3d or sound
i have been struggling hard to make my dream machine ..this thing really hangs in windows too...thats it i ahve decided if u are a gamer ..its intel and nvidia gpu and windows

[kpeti]

Leadtek K7n415DA

Slackware 9.1 stock kernel(2.4.22), using the default alsa with my SoundStorm's spdif, sounds great. Not using the nforce lan, but a pci realtek.
The 2 newest display drivers are not working really good , so I'm stucked with the latest 4xxx driver release, which is fine. /running gnome + gdm/

[floffe]

Gentoo with 2.6.2-love1 at DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra B

[altorus]

Gentoo on an Albatron KM18GPro
Kernel 2.4.22-ac4, tho just about to try 2.6.1-gentoo

Onboard ethernet/sound fine

Onboard gfx a little funky under X, running my old gf4mx instead until i get the onboard stable

Also running gentoo on my other systems, an A7S333 and a compaq laptop

[e1000]

slackware with 2.4.22-mosix kernel (still working on geting the second computer to let me export tasks to it). And I have a 2.4.23 gaming kernel with that prempting patch, (thats where all my 3rd party drivers are)

its on a Biostar M7NCD-pro with a athlon XP 2200, it has 3rd party sound card (casue the onboard sound isnt linux freindly as far as i can tell) and a Nvidia Geforce4 MX440 cause the Nvidia driver instalation kicks the crap out of the RPM's you must to use for radeons (especially in a non RPM distro)