How do you choose linux compatible server motherboards?

Question

linux

I got a bit confused when choosing a server motherboard, please clarify a couple of points
1) On most older server motherboards, there are no tests confirming work with the latest distributions by release date. How do I know if I can run a modern distribution on it, such as Debian 9.9 Stretch or Ubuntu 18.04.2 server ?
For example, on the supermicro X10DRW-I board, there is neither debian nor Ubuntu 18.04 in the table of supported ones that were tested.

https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/C612_X10_list3.cfm

2) Asus generally just has Linux 64, does this mean that it has compatibility with the latest versions of distributions?

https://www.asus.com/ru/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/Z10PAD8/HelpDesk_Download/

3) What you should pay attention to when choosing compatibility, if you don’t see it with any eye, is it worth paying attention to the date of updating the BIOS firmware.
For example, the BIOS of this motherboard has not been updated for a long time, will it support the latest LTS version of the distribution?

https://www.asus.com/ru/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/Z8NAD6/HelpDesk_BIOS/

Share your experience, thanks.

Answer 1

With a high degree of probability, any server motherboards will work with linux.
And if the old distribution kit works on them, then the new one with the new kernel will work almost completely.

Answer 2

esxi is Linux.
Of those that dell poweredge took, supermicro platforms are able to work with a hypervisor (this was a requirement for the supplier). I assume that it will work with the rest of linux / freebsd.
True, I have all the work in the console, no GUI

Answer 3

To be honest, I have never looked at the compatibility tables for MB and Linux, much more important is the same with the processor, network card, etc. And, which is typical, it has never happened that Supermicro did not work, that's why it is a server one.

Answer 4

Is this a new joke - "support for the latest linux distributions"? Or just from Windows have not yet weaned? There is nothing in linux that fundamentally does not allow the server mother to work even ten or more years ago. Yes, some peripherals from the category of special exotics may not start (but this is more typical for MSI's super-druper tricked-out gaming mothers), but this has not happened so far so that the supermicro does not start.

Answer 5

I do not quite agree that any Linux will rise on any supermicro.
Now I'm at war with x7dcl-3 - Debian refuses to run the installer.