On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Yeah, they really botched this product.
Oh come on, don't be a drama queen. Optiplex 755 on RHEL 5.2. There was no
released kernel to support the e1000e NIC, and Intel hadn't even released a
driver that worked with EagleLake so you were stuck with vesa. That made it a
bad choice for linux, I'll concede, but I wouldn't call it botched, and that's
a lot less usable than this.
> They *finally* (years after competitors) come up with a 1u server with 4x
> 3.5" drives and they stick a NIC in the box that works with pretty much
> nothing.
>
> Completely disappointed.
#1 I thought it'd be confirmed that it works with RHEL 5.3? If Redhat can
keep up, why not Ubuntu?
#2 Do the drivers from more recent kernels build on 8.04? As long as the NIC
works, I'm sure you can write off the DVD in a server.
#3 Does the world end if you run a more recent kernel with 8.04 until Ubuntu
get their finger out?
jh
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