“ABIT, famous for quality products that deliver powerful
performance for a fantastic value, is now releasing their own Linux
package, Gentus? a distribution customized for ABIT’s Hardware,
“Free From ABIT and Free From Worry!” exclaims ABIT?s PR manager
Jeremy Smith. The ABIT Gentus package features the latest stable
kernel with full native support for multi-processing, and drivers
and patches all together. “With Gentus we have really gone out of
our way to make it easy to set up and install. Specifically we
have added direct support for UDMA/ATA/66 drivers so that you can
install directly to an ATA/66 drive, with a fixed driver and driver
optimizations for UDMA66,” explains ABIT’s Smith. “Previously,
users had to first install in the ATA/33 mode then later switch
over to the ATA/66 channel. With our software enhancements to the
Linux kernel that has all been obviated and the process is much
more smooth.”
“With ABIT’s Gentus there is even auto recognition of ABIT
motherboards to suggest which pre-built kernels a user might want
to install in X-WIN GUI mode such as KDE OR GNOME. Many software
distributions only offer one of those. Software RAID that is
compatible with UDMA/66 IDE is supported and is directly
installable to and bootable from RAID at the setup menu of the 1st
CD. Gentus’ also features flexible HD partitioning and
pre-configuration as well as the afore mentioned installation to
IDE drive on UDMA/66 from a bootable CD.”