hardware questions, Ubuntu and Dell

[Nathan Aubrey]

On Friday 07 March 2008 18:34:29 der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> I'm wanting to do some virtual machine testing. I've grown tired
> of getting old hardware to work, so I thought I'd use this as an excuse to
> get a nice box with multi-core CPU(s) and at least a couple of GB of RAM.
>
> So, I wandered over to the Dell website and search for both Linux and
> Ubuntu.
>
> Both searches essentially bring up the following search results.
>
> http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=bsd&c=us&l=en&cs=04&k=ubuntu&cat=all
>
> That recommended result that mentions Ubuntu brings up a page of boxen
> with FreeDOS and RHEL on them. No Ubuntu :(.
>
> http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/nseries?c=us&cs=04&l=en&
>s=bsd&~ck=mn
>
> What gives? Where are the boxen with support for Ubuntu?
>
> I don't know anything about which CPU is better, etc. nowadays. They all
> way outperform my needs, so it's generally irrelevant for me :).
>
> With this box, though, I'd like something that'll handle well for
> virtualization stuff, but not be a power hog.
>
> I would generally prefer something from AMD. Would the Intel quad core
> CPUs make a huge difference?
>
> AMD ATHLONâ„¢ X2 6000+ (3.0GHZ,1MBX2) [add $240]
> AMD ATHLONâ„¢ X2 5600+ (2.8GHZ,1MBX2) [add $155]
> AMD ATHLONâ„¢ 5400B (2.8GHz,512KBX2) [add $130]
> AMD ATHLONâ„¢ 64 X2 5000+ (2.60GHz, 512KBx2) [add $95]
> AMD ATHLONâ„¢ X2 4400+ (2.3GHZ,512KBX2) [add $40]
> AMD ATHLONâ„¢ X2 4000+ (2.1GHZ,512KBX2) [Included in Price]
>
> Those descriptions are less than helpful.
>
> Any recommendations on the Dell offering or from a company that actually
> offers Ubuntu?
>
> Yeah, I won't be keeping their install, but I will back it up for
> reference should something not work on my install. It would also be nice
> to have a decent shot of actually getting support for Ubuntu.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans

All of Dell's offerings are here: 
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/nseries?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=anavml

I prefer this stripped model so you can install your own distro. I've not been 
happy with any pre-installed distro yet.



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