Suse isnt bad as a distro, not my first choice but it isnt bad at all. That is a pretty top o the line rig, you may have to literally roll your own via Gentoo or similar to enable support for the various bits which arent widely distributed enough to warrant everyone having drivers.
tlowe wrote: > Hey Folks, > > I'm trying to find a distribution that will play nicely with my Tyan > VX50 machine (8 quad-core AMD 8000, 128gb ram) (S4985-E). > I've tried Ubuntu 8.04 server which does not recognize the hardware > raid. > OpenSUSE 11 petered out on installing the boot loader (as did Ubuntu). > > What OS do people use on machines such as these? > Tyan docs state that RHEL4 & 5 are supported (excluding hardware RAID) > and SUSE9.3 - 10.1 (without hardware RAID support also). > Windows is fully supported. Go figure... > > I don't really want to switch from Ubuntu 8.04. The machine came with > Windows support drivers, but none for Linux. > > Any advice (possibly on how to roll my own)? > > Thanks. > -Tripp > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
