Re: Reliable hardware

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
11 Dec 2002 17:01:48 +0000


On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:08, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Is there a good site for pointers towards assembling reliable Linux
> machines? It seems to me the trickiest part of the whole operation is
> choosing good hardware in the first place. I just started a new job and
> inherited a buch of new but flakey machines, and I'd like to avoid doing
> that in the future.

The AMD duals have been a disaster in my experience. Its a shame because
when they do go they really are very fast boxes. The biggest factor I've
found is chipsets.

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