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Do any of the vendors sell a good multi-processor Linux server
with SOMETHING OTHER THAN REDHAT?  Anything?  Please?  (And Caldera
doesn't count).

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Mark P. Nelson, Programmer/Analyst
Department of Integrative Biology, Thomson Laboratory
Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos         --         the only sysadmins that matter

Suse, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware and many more distributions of Linux.
I personally like Suse and have it as my only OS now and it was fairly
easy to setup.  I know Debian is the one with the most packages
included.  Mandrake is Redhat optimized for the Pentium processor.  Look
around because many of the distributions do not get as much press as
Redhat and Caldera but are just as good once properly setup.

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:> Do any of the vendors sell a good multi-processor Linux server
:> with SOMETHING OTHER THAN REDHAT?  Anything?  Please?  (And Caldera
:> doesn't count).
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: Suse, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware and many more distributions of Linux.
: I personally like Suse and have it as my only OS now and it was fairly
: easy to setup.  I know Debian is the one with the most packages
: included.  Mandrake is Redhat optimized for the Pentium processor.  Look
: around because many of the distributions do not get as much press as
: Redhat and Caldera but are just as good once properly setup.

Thanks, but I'm looking for a _hardware_ vendor.

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Mark P. Nelson, Programmer/Analyst
Department of Integrative Biology, Thomson Laboratory
Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos         --         the only sysadmins that matter

Quote:> Thanks, but I'm looking for a _hardware_ vendor.

www.indybox.com offers hardware (only tyan mobos if I recall correctly)
with a choice of distributions. A colleague just received a machine with
debian installed.
                        Gerald            

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Quote:

>Thanks, but I'm looking for a _hardware_ vendor.

VA Research contributes to the Debian Project, so presumably they
sell systems with Debian Linux.  They may not be standard, but if you
ask I recall they'll use any distro you want.
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Hello, the college here has a VA server running Debian, VA is probably
one of the more expensive hardware suppliers, BUT, from what I was
told, they give excellent service and support for their systems.
Hope this helps,  I could probably get you contacted with someone here
at the college if you wish.

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Lookput for SuSE & VA-Research

<http://www.suse.com/Partner/var.html>

or SuSE themselves:

<http://www.suse.de/suse_comp/index.html>

regards,
        Nils

Many thanks to all who have replied.

I was giving up on VAResearch because their web pages only mention RedHat
in conjunction with the server I want, and their OS ftp site only has
their tweaked version of RH on it.  I'll give them a call and ask about
other distributions.

I did not know about IndyBox, and they also look quite promising.

Back to research--have to spend the money before the budget runs out!

Thanks again!

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Mark P. Nelson, Programmer/Analyst
Department of Integrative Biology, Thomson Laboratory
Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos         --         the only sysadmins that matter

On 17 Sep 1999 18:31:49 GMT, Mark P. Nelson

You might look at the URL below; there are a whopping lot of vendors
out there.  

I'd be pleased if something like the "Linux VAR HOWTO" grabbed all the
URLs I list, thus obviating the value in having such a list, but that
HOWTO appears to have been inactive for a good long time.
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   2) You can only break even at absolute zero.
   3) You can't get to absolute zero.

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Quote:>I'd be pleased if something like the "Linux VAR HOWTO" grabbed all the
>URLs I list, thus obviating the value in having such a list, but that
>HOWTO appears to have been inactive for a good long time.

Hmmm.  The latest copy I have that came with Slackware 4.0 was dated March
7th, 1999.  That sounds fairly current.  Have you tried emailing the
maintainer with your URLs?

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On 17 Sep 1999 18:31:49 GMT, Mark P. Nelson

You might look at the URL below; there are a whopping lot of vendors
out there.  

I'd be pleased if something like the "Linux VAR HOWTO" grabbed all the
URLs I list, thus obviating the value in having such a list, but that
HOWTO appears to have been inactive for a good long time.
--
The Three Laws of Thermodynamics:
   1) You can't win, only lose or break even.
   2) You can only break even at absolute zero.
   3) You can't get to absolute zero.

: On 17 Sep 1999 18:31:49 GMT, Mark P. Nelson
:>I did not know about IndyBox, and they also look quite promising.

: You might look at the URL below; there are a whopping lot of vendors
: out there.  

Thanks--loads of useful pointers here.

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Mark P. Nelson, Programmer/Analyst
Department of Integrative Biology, Thomson Laboratory
Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos         --         the only sysadmins that matter

It's been a while since the last time I did so; haven't seen any response.

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