Mandag 26 februar 2007 10:03 skrev John Andersen:
On Sunday 25 February 2007, Morten Bjørnsvik wrote:
Not even plain servers worked. Mostly because they use the cheapest of the cheapest components, without assuring linux compliance.
Thats not been my experience.
I've put SLES on a couple different classes of Dell Poweredge servers and I thought they were very will built machines. Everything worked. The SLES was purchased from Dell along with the machines.
But laptops or desktops pre-installed with Linux are what this article deals with, not so much servers.
I just installed 10.2 for an engineering firm with dual 20inch Flat panels onto a Dimension 9200 with a high-end core 2 duo processor. Its an awesome machine, and it all works just fine. In fact it drives the 20 inch monitors better than XP does. Of course I had been thru the ATI knothole a few times.
This is the one thing that will get ATI to clean up its act. Linux users can bitch all day long, and still amount to 1% of the market, but when Mike Dell calls up AMD and tells them he has to have working Linux drivers that will install cleanly under linux you can bet he will get them/
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I've installed quite a few DELL PowerEdge 2800 with various SuSE/Linux sw. All have been very easy and works very well. I actually prefer(ed) DELL to IBM due to IBM's lack (!!) of Linux support. I never received the correct drivers for RAIDs and so, all IBM Linux seemed to be ancient RedHat7 (!!!) stuff. I gave up and ordered DELL. FYI: nowadays I use SUN Xfire 2100/2200/4200 boxes with SuSE10.2. Works like a charm. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org