Dell's w/o OS - where?

[Jamie Bohr]

The Super Micro's we bought three years ago are dieing right and left.  We
are now buying Dell and quite happy.  Dell system we bought 5 years ago are
still running.

My person opinion though.

On 2/2/07, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat February 3 2007, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> > Wal-Mart is still selling only from their website one system
> > with Linspire installed. They have been doing that for
> > about 5 years now.
> >
> > http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3762912
>
> Actually, they were selling those in my local Walmart at Christmas two
> seasons
> back.
> Thanks to all who responded. I got so irritated with Dell, that I was
> finally
> able to overcome the corporate predilections, and I sold them on a
> SuperMicro
> barebones system; we're going to put dual Opterons in it with 4 GB of ram,
> and use it to run a vmware server. Unfortunately, I couldn't convince the
> cheese to go with a Linux server running vmwareserver, so I'll be
> installing
> Vista on it.
> This is a beautiful machine in case anyone is interested - it has eight
> dimm
> slots and can take up to 16 GB of memory (actually up to 32 GB in one
> configuration); it has 8 hot swap SATA2 drive slots in the front. It was
> suprisingly cheap, considering what it is. I have no experience with
> supermicro boards directly, but they're considered the primo setup for
> non-linear video editing systems I use, and are constantly praised on that
> board. If anyone wants to see this box, you can go to mwave.com and click
> on
> barebones systems in the left column, and then click on barebones servers
>
> Thanks for all the responses
>
> --
> Claude Jones
> Brunswick, MD, USA
>
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Jamie Bohr
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