On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:17:47PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > Quick question. > > I'm trying to setup a new server and am looking at hardware > configurations for the server. I've been told by the sales person that > Debian can not be installed on an Intel Woodcrest Xeon processor. > > The original quote from them is as follows, "We can not do Debian or > FreeBSD on these servers however as the latest versions of those OS do > not support this hardware yet. We can do CentOS, RHES or Fedora." > > Is this correct? > -- > Regards Hi Justin Hartman, AFAICT hardware support is provided by the kernel and its modules. Unless thoese OS's have proprietary, or super-secret code, it sounds like nonsense. There are 2 meaning for 'support': Some companies 'support' certain OS's meaning that you can pay money and get technical support,the other meaning is that the computer can run the OS. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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