[balug-talk] 1U server recommendations

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Dan Simoes wrote:

> Someone at work just ordered a new Dell 1U.  Dual core, 1Gb RAM, 80 Gb 
> SATA.  It was under $900 shipped, with 3 yr next day on site service.

Geez, that's not much at all!  Which model?

> We had trouble with Debian on the DL145 and HP will not support Debian in
> any shape or form.

That's funny, given HP's support of Debian (*) and hiring of Bruce Perens 
back in the day (+).  In fact, 
http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/76815-0-0-225-121.html seems to 
claim HP does support Debian.

> Same goes for IBM, apparently.

That's sad, too.

Sorry to hear corporate Linux schizophrenia is still a problem....

> If anyone is running debian on the DL145, I'd love to hear from you. 
> We had weird issues (would show only 3Gb memory and 3 cores, when it had 
> 4 of each) and could not get around them.

We had that problem with the RAM of an amd64 system trying both Fedora and 
Debian at acm.jhu.edu.  Unfortunately I can't remember for the life of me 
how we solved it, but I'll mail the list again if I can find the person 
who helped us out of it.  I think we solved it just before we installed 
Solaris to try out ZFS.

-- Asheesh.

*. HP gives Debian free hardware access: 
http://www.debian.org/News/2003/20030102

HP gives Debian developers free LWN subscriptions:
http://lwn.net/Articles/13797/

(+). http://lwn.net/2001/features/oreilly2001/BrucePerensInterview.php3

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