Art Ross wrote: ----------------->>>> Our department offers a "Fundamentals of Linux" course. In the future, we plan to add additional courses as the demand builds. This requires us to be very selective of the PC systems we chose for the Linux computer labs. At our community college, we have an ITS department that has strong input into the PC's choosen for the college. This is where my questions and concerns arise.
This year our department is having the eight computers in a lab upgraded. The ITS department has choosen the HP Vectra VL 420 P4 as the standard. Research at the HP website has indicated that HP doesn't support the use of LInux on this platform. We've conducted RH7.1 and RH 7.2 installs with reasonable success. Also, RedHat states they have conducted compatability certification on the ASUS P4B-MX motherboard contained in the HP Vectra is system. It did pass everything except the sound and advanced LAN tests. Unfortunately, the HP Vectra VL420 P4 doesn't use the native BIOS which is an Award BIOS. The HP uses an AMI BIOS. For those not very familiar with this motherboard it has an onboard sound card and NIC. Personally, I don't like this but can anyone give us some warnings and/or suggestions with this system. We meet with the ITS rep and an HP salesperson in a week, so we want to be armed with the facts. If we can show these systems to be incompatable with Linux in general, we'll be permitted to purchase some slightly more expensive systems from Dell which are documented to support Linux. ----------------->>>> Sorry if this isn't timely... We utilize a complete HP Linux environment and have little to complain about. However, we have don't have any of the specific systems your looking at. For pretty good HP system info try this http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HP-HOWTO Don't know if that helps but it got a lot of info and it's updated regularly. It hard to understand what the problems is with your request though. You say that install went reasonable. Can that be said as successful? Or was there specific failures? What benchmarking specifics for failure would you be talking about for the sound and advance networking? Kind of vague. A note on Dell though... I swear I read somewhere that they were cutting back on their Linux ... something. Sorry don't recall totally. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
