ckrles
Wed May 28, 2014 6:55:34 pm
Hi, I'm building a mini-itx pc and planning on using zorin 6 and later move on to Zorin 9 when available.
My problem is with the mini itx board. It is meant to be used in a business where not a lot of power is required, so I was considering motherboards with integrated cpu (celeron j1800 or may J1900) which also have integrated graphics card. These are the mother boards I'm interested in:
- Asus J1800i-C (very similar to Asus J1800i-A)
- MSI J1800i
- Gigabyte j1800-d2h
I'm concerned with their support for linux since I think that some of the are kind of locked to only use Windows 8. some of them won't even boot Win7.
So, I'd like to know if any of you are running Zorin or any ubuntu based distro on this board and if the installation was easy and out of the box.
Somewhere I read a user who is running linux on Gigabyte j1800-d2h but he had to update the BIOS to F3 and it was a bit complicated and I don't want to start fiddle with BIOS update, something I have no experince at. This is what the manufacturer says about Linux "Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, please download Linux driver from chipset vendors' website or 3rd party website." You can see it here http://www.gigabyte.com/products/produc ... id=4881#sp It seems that BIOS update will support it, but I don't wanna take the risk of receiving one which is not updated.
Anybody with these boards? (Experiences about J1900 mother boards are most welcome too)
Thank you very much.
My problem is with the mini itx board. It is meant to be used in a business where not a lot of power is required, so I was considering motherboards with integrated cpu (celeron j1800 or may J1900) which also have integrated graphics card. These are the mother boards I'm interested in:
- Asus J1800i-C (very similar to Asus J1800i-A)
- MSI J1800i
- Gigabyte j1800-d2h
I'm concerned with their support for linux since I think that some of the are kind of locked to only use Windows 8. some of them won't even boot Win7.
So, I'd like to know if any of you are running Zorin or any ubuntu based distro on this board and if the installation was easy and out of the box.
Somewhere I read a user who is running linux on Gigabyte j1800-d2h but he had to update the BIOS to F3 and it was a bit complicated and I don't want to start fiddle with BIOS update, something I have no experince at. This is what the manufacturer says about Linux "Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, please download Linux driver from chipset vendors' website or 3rd party website." You can see it here http://www.gigabyte.com/products/produc ... id=4881#sp It seems that BIOS update will support it, but I don't wanna take the risk of receiving one which is not updated.
Anybody with these boards? (Experiences about J1900 mother boards are most welcome too)
Thank you very much.
