I was thinking the same thing, almost all my boxes are Dell of various ages and hardware configurations and I have never had a problem beyond your basic bad disk,etc. My favorite "cheap" Dell are their 400SC's and I run a few of them on 3.9 stable (since 3.7 without a hiccup).
On Fri, September 8, 2006 14:04, Marco Peereboom wrote: >> Many of the big server makers (HP, sun, etc) seem to be using broadcoms, >> and we really need to get away from our Dell boxes with em(4) card, as >> they crash like crazy with 3.9 stable. > > You must be using different Dell boxes because mine work just fine and I have > many deployed. Care to elaborate with a bug report?