I've not had too many problems with any of the major manufactures in the 12 years I've been doing linux system administration. I've run servers from Dell, HP, IBM, Supermicro and DEC.
I've run Redhat from RH 5.0 through RHEL 5. SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Yellowdog and derivitives. It's not that the drivers are hard to find. It's that you need to know where to look. For example. Dell put's their drivers for their hardware on their servers, and doesn't let many people mirror them. So you have to go to Dell to get them. The same with IBM. HP is a bit more open and has mirrors at some major institutions. DEC is now HP. Supermicro also has their own archive of drivers. On Aug 15, 2011, at 12:16 PM, <[email protected]> <[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? Russell Johnson [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
