> Needless to say, I'm not a fan of Dell, whatever Wall Street might think.
> Compaq isn't without issues, but at least we can count on the drives staying
> put, the servers taking up a lot less space, and better support (reseller
> plus manufacturer). I would like to find something better, or at least
> cheaper, though, which is why I'm asking about rackmount options. VA's
> products look good, and are less expensive, but I'd be concerned about
> running NT on them, so I was hoping someone may have had some experience
> installing non-Linux on a VA box.
i thought that VA would install whatever OS you requested, including
NT. at least that's been the case for their workstation-class
machines in the past. penguin i know avoids anything M$ and leave you
on your own if you want NT.
at any rate, machines that are well-supported under linux likely won't
have any serious probs with NT. especially servers where you're
mostly concerned with the driver quality for SCSI and/or RAID
controllers. i don't know of any of those that work under linux, but
not NT.
tim
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