Drivers and AMD E350?

[Concillian]

Anyone have an idea on the state of drivers for the Zacate platform?

I'm looking forward to upgrading my fileserver machine from the old A64 platform it's on now and the E350 seems the right price and low power usage. I don't need to do anything fancy with it, but it'd be nice for X to just work without having to muck around too much.

Currently using Ubuntu something LTS. Not sure which version. It's been a couple years since I've done anything but update that machine. Might be 8.04 LTS? I'm sure quite old by today's standards.

I'm not tied to any particular OS. Literally all I run it for right now is a firewall, and samba, and moving forward, the firewall will be offloaded to a dedicated router. I just don't want to have to spend a week just to get X to work when I only even log into the machine once a month or so to run updates and copy an image of the drive to an external drive.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I have no clue about AMD drivers...I typically stick with Intel just to avoid problems/questions with compatibility since most of my hardware is on relatively 3-5 year lifecycles... It really when you spread the extra cost for Intel over that timeframe it almost seems 'worth it'. 😉

If I had to pick an server OS, it would be CentOS. It's free and can run anything Red Hat can...it also has some decent repos out and is extremely stable. It's not pretty like Ubuntu's gui, but it has Gnome/KDE and does the job if you have to have a gui...otherwise, ssh to the box and do everything with yum.

Those are just my opinions though. To each his own...everything has its own learning curve and pros/cons.