It has been a while since I was involved directly with rackmount kit, but I seem to remember whitebox stuff such as SmithMicro worked well, if you weren't looking for the big ticket name brand stuff with support contracts etc.
You could also try some of the vendors that specialize in Linux, such as Penguin Computing and others. I used to work for an open source rackmount vendor down in California, eRacks.com. They ship nationwide, couldn't hurt to check them out. I can speak to their adherence to F/OSS philosophy. They at least used to give a discount to the local LUG, might be worth it to ask if they could extend the same for other LUGs, or at least this one since I mentioned it ;). ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to buy a new rackmount server to run Linux. I want to stay away > from > vendors who use proprietary hardware with difficult-to-find Linux drivers > (e.g. Dell, at least in the past). What brands do the fine folks at PLUG > think I should consider? > > -Brian Martin > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
