[olug] Server Motherboard Recomendations.

[Jesse Regier]

Ola' Olug,

I will be traveling to Brazil next month to help a missionary friend out 
with a new server at a radio station.  We are planning to setup a  Samba 
server probably on Centos. (5.3 hopefully)  I haven't been in the 
whitebox server game for a while and need some recommendations for the 
the motherboard.   What has been working for you all lately?

This will be their  first Linux box down there and I its a long way to 
go to support it, so I need things to work out of the box.  (No custom 
kernels etc.)

I'm thinking it will probably be a Core2 Duo processor.  ATX 
Motherboard,  2 mirrored SATA drives. (Software raid - don't want a raid 
controller to go bad that they can't get a replacement for.)   The rest 
is pretty flexible.  The key is reliablity. 

We will be replacing an ancient Windows NT 4.0 server.

Thanks,


Jesse Regier