Hi *, Great news! The Henry Sibley PTA has raised $6500 to buy our school district a new Web server. This is greatly needed because our current machine is a cast-off P75 (with 120 MHz overdrive chip), 32 MB RAM and a crappy IDE HD. We're essentially all Compaq here and our head geek wants to standardize hardware as much as possible to give flexibility for recycling servers, trading drives, etc. As a result we're looking at a new rack-mount DL 380. Here are the specs (for the curious among you): * 933 MHz Pentium III * (2) 18 GB 10k RPM SCSI drives (RAID mirroring) * On-board Smart Array RAID controller * 512 MB RAM * 3U rack-mount case * normal everything else It will be plugged into a huge UPS and we've got a mongo DLT tape library system for all of the servers. Anyone have experience with Linux on one of these? Compaq lists RedHat, SuSE, and one other distro that I can't remember as "certified." Can I expect any problems installing Debian on it? -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/