[TriLUG] Linux Hardware Vendor

[Tarus Balog]

Gang:

Gone are the days of building my own machines from scratch, and as I find myself in need of a new server I was wondering if there were any preferred Linux hardware vendors out there. I know I can run Linux on IBM, HP and Dell servers with little problem, but I'd like to spend my dinero with a Linux friendly vendor.

This machine will mainly be a web/file/mail server out on the interweb, and I'm thinking about a 2U with something like 6 disks set up RAID 5. The specs are pretty fluid, but prolly 2-4 GB RAM and a 64-bit processor or two.

I'm looking at Penguin Linux but want to know if any of you have experience (good or bad) with them or other vendors.

-T