Robert - elists wrote:
We use a lot of hp servers...
The idea here is that I want to put centos on the machine, use it mainly as a high powered workstation with a good video card and I need rock solid functional reliability as a desktop workstation.
Im thinking in terms of the hardware, yet im concerned about the video drivers etc.
I am not an expert on video cards and video drivers in the linux community.
Obviously if it is beefy enough it will handle basic server testing chores too.
Thanks for the input... more? Others?
I've been pretty impressed with IBM 3550's compared to earlier versions but they are noisy 1U units like you would probably use as a production server and you don't want to sit near it. Have you considered running X remotely from a different desktop workstation instead of dealing with the video on the server itself? Or even freenx with the NX client on your choice of linux/windows/mac workstations.
Just make sure you get a CPU type that can run VMware 64 bit guests if you want to be able to test everything (not all 64-bit processors can).