On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 10:36:53AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > What piece of hardware won't work on HP-DL360? I find the specs generic > enough that it would be supported even by older Linux kernels.
Having had a fair bit of experience with the Proliant DL series servers, I can say that you do need the driver updates that HP provides. One deployment would have a mysterious situation where the machine is pingable, but is otherwise inaccessible on the network. The driver update that HP provided (RHAS 2.1 and EL3.0 only) fixed this problem and it never recurred after more than a year of operation. It's not that some hardware wouldn't work; it's that some hardware won't work reliably for long, and in an enterprise server, such reliability is everything. If you can't afford to purchase an official copy of RHAS/ES, then I suppose WBEL is a good enough alternative. I don't see any reason why the driver updates that enterprise vendors like HP provide would fail to work on such a system, given that the kernel binaries are perfectly identical to the ones Red Hat themselves provide. -- dido Sans les mathematiques on ne penetre point au fond de la philosophie. Sans la philosophie on ne penetre point au fond des mathematiques. Sans les deux on ne penetre au fond de rien. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
