It's time to purchase hardware again, and I'm going through the usual "of that which is on the market, what will CentOS run without leaving new hardware collecting dust for a year"? I'm looking at a number of commodity-grade machines (ie: desktop grade will suffice) with reasonably fast CPUs and able to use at least 8GB each (preferably 32GB). These will be deployed as software development systems in run mode 3 (ie: no real graphical requirement). Does anyone have suggestions, assuming a CentOS 6.x install, what CPUs/chipsets, etc, to avoid? (Or alternately, which ones still commonly on the market are fine?) I've typically stuck to Intel CPUs, and prefer Gigabyte or Intel motherboards. I'd prefer to minimize the likelihood of non-working or marginally-working hardware. I've had a look at the supported RHEL hardware list, but they typically just list Xeon-based machines. Thanks in advance. Devin
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Devin Reade <gdr at gno.org> wrote:> > I've typically stuck to Intel CPUs, and prefer Gigabyte or Intel > motherboards. I'd prefer to minimize the likelihood of non-working > or marginally-working hardware.As for "Desktop" grade boards - officially Intel does not support them. Although they may well with Linux, in case of problems (RMA) they will ask you to do Windows specific things before giving a RMA number. Server boards - specific versions of RHEL + SLES mentioned for the specific board; mention of CentOS or any other Linux distro results in "unsupported" OS. This has been my experience with Intel in India. Gigabyte does list Linux for their boards, albeit as caveat -- an example here: <http://www.gigabyte.in/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4388#sp> I would suggest select a board that has been in the market for about 6 months. Look up the chipset on the board and verify support for it in the Linux kernel. Also, besides costing a little less it will most likely work with the latest incarnate of the OS. -- Arun Khan