If you're a heavy user of the Linux VGA console, you'll like this feature. Recent 2.6 kernels have added support for soft scrollback. This feature enables you to have much bigger scrollback buffer than the standard console has, at the price of slightly slower console output.

ASRock 775Dual-VSTABeing a happy owner of the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA motherboard for a week, I decided to share my opinions about it and also give an advice or two to other people thinking about running Linux on it.

In short, this board is an exceptional piece of engineering and Linux runs GREAT on it. I'm not going to list all the specifications of the motherboard, because they're readily available on its official page, but let me go through the interesting features:

• the board can use both DDR & DDRII memory (but not at the same time!)
• you can equip it with AGP or PCIe graphics card, your choice
• there's plenty of connectors for both older ATA or newer SATA drives
• you can run any LGA 775 processor you can get hands on, including latest Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe core)
• the board is very affordable (or should I say dirt cheap)