On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:05:32 -0500 Tarus Balog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This machine will mainly be a web/file/mail server out on the > interweb, and I'm thinking about a 2U with something like 6 disks set > up RAID 5. The specs are pretty fluid, but prolly 2-4 GB RAM and a > 64-bit processor or two. > > I'm looking at Penguin Linux but want to know if any of you have > experience (good or bad) with them or other vendors.
I recently bought a small cluster of Sun X2200's connected with InfiniBand. Sun assembled and racked it. We took delivery, plugged it in, loaded Fedora Core 6 x86_64 plus our bits, and had things working in a few hours. It was surprisingly easy. Even the InfiniBand worked the first time I tried it. I'm sure the vast majority of the credit goes to the Linux kernel developers but at least Sun didn't mess it up by choosing, say, some cheap/oddball SCSI adapter with less-than- stellar Linux support (*cough* old Dells *cough*). The Sun sales folks were helpful and had a good attitude. And I can't say anything about the Sun RMA process because, so far, we've haven't had any hardware failures. Ed ps - No, I don't own any SUNW stock. -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://eh3.com/
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