[sclug] Linux friendly rack mountable server suppliers

[Tim Sutton]

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Very cool - off to download it now :-)

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 8:00 pm, you wrote:
> I was playing with bootable cd's the other day and found one called ADIOS 
> at http://dc.qut.edu.au/adios/  it is RH not Debian but includes UML so
> just download, burn, reboot and play with UML. how easy is that.
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> Hi All
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> We are on the point of buying a couple of servers. We are looking for the
> most 'bang for the buck' we can get with a price cap of ?1500 per machine.
> They must be rack mountable. They must be linux friendly. AMD chips are
> preferable. Dual processors are preferrable. They dont need to be brand
> name machines provided they are backued up with a good guarantee. They must
> (obviously) be fully linux (Debian!) compatible.
>
> Does anyone know any suppliers that they can recommend? Is anyone on the
> list a hardware vendor?
>
> Related to this, I am thinking of installing Usermode Linux on one of the
> servers. Does anyone know of some good resources that will get me on my way
> with UML?
>
> Many thanks
> <

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