Re: Does Etch support Intel Woodcrest Xeon processors?

["Justin Hartman" <jjhartman@gmail.com>]

On 12/29/06, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> wrote:
> 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.

Yeah that's what I thought. Everyone I've spoken to about this has
told me that Etch will work no problem and I think the issue is 'they'
don't want to support Debian due to lack of technical resources.

Regards
Justin

> 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
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