Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[Verner Kjærsgaard <vk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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> John Andersen

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.

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