RE: [OFF TOPIC] Dell PowerEdge

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 04:46 AM 9/7/00 , you wrote:

>         I can only give a cursory responce to this one (massive conflicts of
> interest and what have you), but if you're going to buy a Poweredge anyway
> and then trash what's on it (NT or wever) to install Linux then why not
> start with RH and build from there ?? That way you get the Linuxcare support
> tokens and what have you.

This thread has probably run it's course but I'll go ahead and mention that 
I bought a 1300 12 or 18 months ago.  At that time RH cost something like 
$150 or $200 to install.  This just seemed wrong, but the reason I decided 
to do my own was to optimize the partitioning and packages 
installed.  (Also it needed to run Red Hat's Secure Server which was not, I 
think, a choice).  The couple questions I've had for Dell, their tech 
support has answered admirably, none of this, "Oh, we don't support Linux. 
Click." BS.

Anyway, someone asked about RAM, etc.  It's a single PII 450 (?) with 256 
MB RAM, a single 9 GB SCSI disk.  At that, it's way (way!) over-powered as 
a light-duty web-server for an all-CGI website (I wanted something that 
would scale).  It accepted RH 6.x flawlessly and I've not had any trouble 
at all with it.

-Alan