[TriLUG] Server suggestion for RH 9.0

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> As for hardware, I've had good luck with Dell servers.  They generally
> (but not always) have decent support for the hardware components in
> Linux.  One problem might be the Broadcom gigabit network cards that are
> in some servers these days; I don't know what the current state of
> support for those is. 

I had lots of problems with these in a Dell server circa RHAS 2.1.

Red Hat Linux 9 was much better.  I'm hoping that, by extension, RHEL (and 
by nested extension, CentOS & WBEL) would work as well.  I use CentOS 
these days but not Dell servers anymore.  I am using CentOS on some late 
model  HP 
desktops with Broadcom gigabit (though a slightly different chipset from 
the Dell servers, IIRC) and it works like a champ.

> But if you can get it with Intel e1000, or just
> standard e100, you'll be fine.

I had great luck with RHAS 2.1 on IBM x345 servers (e1000 chipset), FWIW.  
Screaming demons, those boxes.

I've also had great luck with CentOS on 1-3 yr old Compaq Proliants 
(various models) but haven't tried on more recent models.  Anything that 
CentOS works well with should also work well with RHEL and WBEL since they 
are all essentially the same distro.