As a broad, sweeping, general statement Linux sometimes has problems with highly integrated chipsets such as those by SIS but there's almost always a solution, and there are lots of flavours of Linux too, some better than others at supporting peculiar hardware. Google '[my flavour of Linux] [my hardware] problem' before buying.
For server use you generally don't care about graphics performance and my server, a Celeron at about 900MHz, is running on an old ASUS board in a cupboard with no display, and the onboard graphics shut off from the BIOS. It boots to runlevel 3 (command line only multi user) and all the administration is done remotely so I only really care about the network performance. Other things to consider are the BIOS capabilities to power on and off at preset times of the day/week, boot from USB or other ROM devices (useful for security issues), boot from LAN, wake on LAN, support for large RAMs (to boot from ROM and run entirely from RAM with no HDD), and power on/off devices for power consumption reduction. If any of these will be useful to you depends on how you see your server growing, but some maintain a low power 24/7 server and then in a separate box the power hungry disk array which is powered up when necessary. Worth thinking about... -- hellesangel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hellesangel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5658 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43319 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
