On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 21:59 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > On Sat February 3 2007, Jamie Bohr wrote: > > The Super Micro's we bought three years ago are dieing right and left. We > > are now buying Dell and quite happy. Dell system we bought 5 years ago are > > still running. > > > > My person opinion though. > > Well, I guess we're going to find out. We're an all Dell shop, and I'm > hardware manager here. I've got plenty of dead Dells. I heard about > SuperMicro over on the DPSedits list which is a video professional's list for > users of the DPS Reality/Velocity editing system. People have been using them > for years and I haven't heard any complaints, only praise. Video editing is a > pretty intensive environment for stress testing, so that's why I chose it. > Thanks for the input. ---- as hardware systems go, Dell makes systems that are as cheap as any but they also offer better systems and I definitely think that the adage 'you get what you pay for applies' here. I have few complaints about Dell and they are easy enough to reach on the phone and get warranty repairs/parts and I haven't had any arguments with them about repairs which I think inures to their credit. Also to their credit, they have been extremely supportive to Linux - at least with support for SuSE and Red Hat software, moderate in support for Debian and interestingly enough, their software installs on CentOS without any trickery at all (i.e. having to 'doctor' /etc/redhat-release) Dell was strictly Intel until a few months ago and thus the market for the AMD based systems has somewhat escaped them. I gather by the reports that the newer Intel Duo-Core are in par if not outperforming the AMD-64's these days but I leave that assessment to others that are more knowledgeable about those things. Anyway, I think Dell has been an asset to Linux and all of their PowerEdge servers for several years now have been certified to work with Windows and Linux. BTW - Matt Domsch, Dell employee and author of dkms is also a member of Fedora Project Board of Directors <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board> Craig
