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I have done my searches, but couldn't find an answer to my question:

 Please, hardware people, please, just answer my question, don't tell
me to "try" this and that, I know you enjoy buying piece by piece ...,
and I could enjoy it as well. But this is not what I mainly do, if I
give you a 10,000 piece of code for you to enjoy debugging it at
source code level you might not probably "enjoy" it either ;-), so I
would just tell you which tools will you save time, or how you could
solve your problem altogether with another program

 Do you know of motherboards + components combinations, that have been
reliable in home made web/mail servers running Redhat Linux?

 Could you point me to these resources?

Thanks

This isn't specific to web/mail servers but it should help with
information on good hardware choices.

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 > I have done my searches, but couldn't find an answer to my question:
 >
 >  Please, hardware people, please, just answer my question, don't tell
 > me to "try" this and that, I know you enjoy buying piece by piece ...,
 > and I could enjoy it as well. But this is not what I mainly do, if I
 > give you a 10,000 piece of code for you to enjoy debugging it at
 > source code level you might not probably "enjoy" it either ;-), so I
 > would just tell you which tools will you save time, or how you could
 > solve your problem altogether with another program
 >
 >  Do you know of motherboards + components combinations, that have been
 > reliable in home made web/mail servers running Redhat Linux?
 >
 >  Could you point me to these resources?

This isn't specific to web/mail servers but it should help with
information on good hardware choices.

Linux Hardware Database
http://lhd.datapower.com/

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The question is too general and is unanswerable.

Quote:>  Do you know of motherboards + components combinations, that have been
> reliable in home made web/mail servers running Redhat Linux?

Sure. Almost all. Just stay away from integrated stuff. Stay normal.
Don't buy geewizz anything.

Peter

Quote:> I have done my searches, but couldn't find an answer to my question:

>  Please, hardware people, please, just answer my question, don't tell
> me to "try" this and that, I know you enjoy buying piece by piece ...,
> and I could enjoy it as well. But this is not what I mainly do, if I
> give you a 10,000 piece of code for you to enjoy debugging it at
> source code level you might not probably "enjoy" it either ;-), so I
> would just tell you which tools will you save time, or how you could
> solve your problem altogether with another program

>  Do you know of motherboards + components combinations, that have been
> reliable in home made web/mail servers running Redhat Linux?

>  Could you point me to these resources?

> Thanks

Check out http://www.pcsforeveryone.com for desktop machines and laptop
recommendations. For serious orders of many dozens of customized servers and
software support for them, check out http://www.angstrom.com. They make some
*smoking* half and full Terabyte storage systems, and they actually *test*
the machines before shipping.

Almost all of the hardware that I've tried has worked with Red Hat 7.3,
the only exception was an Asus A7V133 motherboard with an AMD XP 1800 CPU.

In any case, the following worked right out of the box:

        CPU     AMD Duron 900 mhz w/AMD retail fan assembly
        MB      Shuttle MK20 with video & Lan
        RAM     256MB SDRAM PC133
        HD      IBM 40G-IDE
        CD      SONY 52X
        MONITOR KDS 17" .25 dot pitch              
        CASE    Generic with an AMD approved power supply
        MOUSE   Logitec Optical
        KB      Mitsumi 104 Key COST    about $530

        CPU     AMD XP 1800 w/AMD retail fan assembly
        MB      Shuttle AK31-A
        VIDEO   ATI Xpert 2000 Pro 32MB
        LAN     RealTec 8139
        RAM     2-256 SDRAM 256MB PC133
        HD      IBM 40G-IDE
        CD      SONY 52X
        MONITOR KDS 17: .25 dot pitch          
        CASE    Generic with an AMD approved power supply      
        COST    about $725

        NOTE:   I don't use sound with my Linux systems, so I have no experience with the
on-board sound with the MK20 mb.

Mike

Perhaps the Athlon XP was the problem there.  I have one of those MBs
running Red Hat 7.2 with Athlon 850 and it works perfectly.  That
CPU/MB combination also ran FreeBSD and OpenBSD with no problems at all.