At 04:46 AM 9/7/00 , you wrote:
> I can only give a cursory responce to this one (massive conflicts of
>interest and what have you), but if you're going to buy a Poweredge anyway
>and then trash what's on it (NT or wever) to install Linux then why not
>start with RH and build from there ?? That way you get the Linuxcare support
>tokens and what have you.
This thread has probably run it's course but I'll go ahead and mention that
I bought a 1300 12 or 18 months ago. At that time RH cost something like
$150 or $200 to install. This just seemed wrong, but the reason I decided
to do my own was to optimize the partitioning and packages
installed. (Also it needed to run Red Hat's Secure Server which was not, I
think, a choice). The couple questions I've had for Dell, their tech
support has answered admirably, none of this, "Oh, we don't support Linux.
Click." BS.
Anyway, someone asked about RAM, etc. It's a single PII 450 (?) with 256
MB RAM, a single 9 GB SCSI disk. At that, it's way (way!) over-powered as
a light-duty web-server for an all-CGI website (I wanted something that
would scale). It accepted RH 6.x flawlessly and I've not had any trouble
at all with it.
-Alan
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