Re: Building two servers
Hans Wilmer wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Which kind of processors can you recommend, AMD (Opteron?) or some
Intel?
_I_ would go for Opteron. If you are interested in a mainstream
vendor, IBM, Sun and even HP have Opteron systems, and all support
Linux.
THX, so IŽll find out more about the Opteron first. The problem with
vendors is that they claim to support Red Hat, Suse and maybe some
other commercial Linux distribution, but usually not Debian.
As you never know exactly what hardware youŽll get from those vendors,
I do see chances for trouble with hardware supported only with other
distributions than Debian. I donŽt know Red Hat, but I know Suse for
making changes to the standard kernels (and other software) that will
lead to incompatibilities sooner or later. ThatŽs one of the good
reasons to use Debian, which provides much better compatibility ...
Arguably, many of those changes are to provide better compatibility with
the hardware. Also, quite a few of those vendor changes make it into the
standard kernel.
A question to ask the vendor is what vendor drivers are provided.
If none, your chances are pretty good. I know Red Hat does not ship
object-code-only (OCO) binaries.
You could also check Apple - at least one US vendor can ship Apple
kit sans OSX, and if you want a 64-bit OS on your Mac today, the
choice is "Which Linux?"
Debian :) ItŽs just that I know Debian the best, as IŽve Debian at
home, introduced it here at work, and it works very well. From my
experience with Suse, I do not trust them, neither Red Hat, to be as
trouble-free as Debian is.
Don't take too much notice of the badmouthing of Red Hat here. I used
Red Hat Linux from RHL 3.0.3 through 7.3 (and I still have one 7.3 box)
and the reasons I'm using Debian now have nothing to do with its
reliability.
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Cheers
John
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