On 12/4/05, Bryan J. Smith <thebs413 at earthlink.net> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 15:47 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote: > > Also, any recommendations for which Dell PERC or Dell SATA RAID > > adapters can I expect to work nicely with CentOS? > > If RHEL supports them, CentOS will support them. > > > If, on the other hand, Dell gives you trouble for CentOS installs, and > > you have recommendations for other server vendors, let me know. In > > particular, one that can provide on-site warranty support in Toronto, > > Canada, would be great. > > Most Tier-1 OEMs don't want to support anything but a combined > hardware/software solution. Right, that is what they told me. > With that said, many Tier-2 and whitebox OEMs cater to multiple OSes. > Several system integrators lurk on the Red Hat AMD64 list: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/amd64-list > > I also mentioned decade-old ASL recently as shipping CentOS as an > additional option to Fedora Core and RHEL: > http://www.aslab.com > > > I'm only interested in i386 architecture, by the way. > > Since Dell doesn't ship AMD on its servers, it makes little difference. > > Although I wouldn't put more than 1-2GiB RAM in the servers. > If you need more than 2GiB, I'd be looking towards AMD. Thanks to everyone for the responses. When I said i386, I misused it--what I really meant to say was "PC-Style", as in, not Sparc or MIPS or whatever. AMD64 would be fine too, although in this case I don't really need the power. I'll look into ASL. They may not sell exactly what I'm looking for in this case (a low-end, tower form factor server) but they look pretty cool in general. Thanks, Matt