I like the board. It really has no oc ability (multiplyer and fsb is about it), but I was more after something stable.
I'm running XP Pro on it, so no Linux experience with it.
The onboard video is pretty good and watching a movie on it was a good experience.
I did have some sound issues, but that was because the driver set the output to zero. All I did was slide the bar to max, and the problem was solved. It is a nice board with some good features for a good price (got it at newegg). Knowing it wasn't going to oc for me before I bought it, I would have to give it a 5 out of 5 for performance and stability.
EDIT: One issue I did have when hooking everyhting up was getting the mobo to recognize my HD (IDE). I was using some cables of my own and it just wouldn't read my drive. Finally I decided to use the one that came with the board and it instantly read it. So, I decided to try the old one I had one last time (have 3 sets of them and couldn't believe all 3 went bad) and it read it. Odd. I have no idea why it didn't recognize it the first 5 times... That was about a 15 minute episode of frustration.