[lug] Server Suggestions

[Kirk Rafferty]

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kyle Moore wrote:

> I am looking to buy a new server for work here. Does anyone have any
> suggestions? We are pretty big into HP stuff for our HP-UX, Novell and
> NT servers but I am open-minded in this search. Our existing Linux
> servers were kinda built from the parts I have wanted but I don't want
> to keep doing that. I want canned hardware that will work well with
> Linux.
> 
> It seems like I have lots of choices. IBM, HP, Compaq (I don't generally
> like Compaq), VA Linux, Penguin Computing, etc.. Anyone have experience
> with any of these that would cause you to recommend them?

My experiences with building and supporting Linux on Compaq have been
shaky at best.  I just put SuSE on an HP Netserver LH4 with 2GB RAM,
6 8GB SCSI disks, 2 500Mhz Zeon's, and an AMI MegraRAID controller.
Install went super (although I had to remove most of the RAM until I had
a kernel built to support 2GB RAM because the install hung otherwise).
We've installed Oracle, and it rocks.  This platform is highly recommended.
(if I had lawyers, they'd say for me to tell you YMMV :-)

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