Linux on intel xserve

[Jason Joines]

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: Linux on intel xserve
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov at cslab.uwlax.edu>
To: Jason Joines <joines at okstate.edu>
Cc: macosx-admin at omnigroup.com
Date: Thu Nov  1 10:47:25 2007
> The link explains it all...
>
> <http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=174>
>
> :)
> Milo
>
> On Oct 31, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Jason Joines wrote:
>
>> Brett Dikeman wrote:
>>> On 10/31/07, Jason Joines <joines at okstate.edu> wrote:
>>>>     Any ideas?
>>> Google "ubuntu xserve intel"?
>>> http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:id4rpzDLrFgJ:bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioclusters/2007-August/003215.html+ubuntu+xserve+intel&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=11&gl=us&client=firefox-a 
>>>
>>> (Link to the cache because apparently the page is not publicly
>>> accessible anymore.)
>>> If you don't mind my asking, what is your intended use for these
>>> systems? (or, perhaps, what *was*, given the above link?)   Even if
>>> you got it to boot, you'd be running a pretty non-standard
>>> configuration.
>>> The choice of Ubuntu for a server application is perhaps not
>>> completely well advised (and yes, I have personal experience using
>>> Ubuntu as a server, along with Gentoo, Debian, and all manner of
>>> Redhat/CentOS.)
>>> Brett
>>
>>
>>
>>     I've seen that post before.  I'm not necessarily married to 
>> Ubuntu.  Any Linux that would install on the intel xserve would be 
>> fine with me.
>>
>>     The intended purpose is a very low utilization file server.  I've 
>> been using various linux distros for servers for about 10 years.  I 
>> thought I might like os x but I really don't and just want to get rid 
>> of it.  However, since the hardware is already here I hate to see it 
>> go to waste.
>>     There is enough pc hardware setting around to do the job but 
>> there are several xserve raid boxes involved and I haven't yet 
>> explored whether or not I can use the fiber channel cards from the 
>> xserve boxes in pc servers.
>>
>>
>> Jason
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Jason
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