Any advice on a flavour of linux that is well suited for a machine with these specs?
I'll be SSHing into it and it will primarily be used for processing large arrays in fortran. On Oct 20, 7:44 pm, "Conrad Lawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not if the ndis-wrapper supports additional Windows drivers. As I > understand it, only NIC drivers are supported. > > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:38 PM, tlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any way to use the Windows drivers in the recompile process? > > > On Oct 20, 5:18 pm, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > -- > Regards, > Conrad Lawes --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
