[Tfug] Linux Friendly PCs (HP, Dell, etc)?

[David Rice]

The 2900 is going EOL, you'll have to look at the 610.

On 4/23/09, Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's been a long time since I've bought a server class PC intending to run
>> Linux on it. I'm a "build it, install it" guy so hardware compatibility
>> has
>> been easy to over come. Does anyone recommend a server class PC (tower)
>> from
>> HP, Dell, etc that works out of the box with distros like Ubuntu Server?
>>
>> I've looked at the HP PRoliant ML350 G5 but the RAID card has reported
>> performance issues that have not been resolved yet.
>
> I'm partial to Dell or Sun hardware.   I'll second the Dell 2950 III
> recommendation - the PERC 6 card is an LSI design, and thus works fine
> with not only Windows and Linux, but also OpenBSD, Solaris, etc.
> (anything with a MegaRAID/SAS driver).  Sun's hardware is bulletproof
> and has a great lights out manager, and comes with more gig-e ports by
> default, if you need those features.
>
> If you're going to be installing a server and want it to run for the
> foreseeable, it may be better to go with an enterprise distro or one
> with long term release support.    I've been a Redhat-style distro
> user for about 12 years, so CentOS is what I tend to use most often if
> Linux compatibility is required.
>
> Otherwise, if you're just building a fileserver or similar and don't
> need to run linux specific hardware, you might check out OpenSolaris,
> mainly for the ZFS filesystem.
>
> - Zack
>
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