[CentOS] Checking fan state

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:16 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> Lanny Marcus wrote:
>> The HW people are way ahead of the SW people? A good reason not to use
>> the latest motherboards, with this technology, in production servers,
>> at this time?
>
> actually, that was desktop stuff I described, not server.    servers
> would presumably continue to use IPMI, for which I believe there is
> linux support..

I can't imagine that kind of risk on a Server. Bad on a Desktop, but
an unacceptable risk on a Server. Good to know the Server motherboards
will continue using IPMI.