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    • scottalanmiller
      scottalanmiller last edited by

      Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

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      • Pete.S
        Pete.S @scottalanmiller last edited by

        @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

        Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

        Good, it makes sense.

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        • dbeato
          dbeato last edited by

          Debian 9 and 18.04 have been working. i have a couple of them and others with xcpng too

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          • Obsolesce
            Obsolesce @scottalanmiller last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

            Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

            I know Windows Server 2008 R2 works on them too lol.

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            • jt1001001
              jt1001001 last edited by

              was just looking at what my coworker installed on our "spare" 2950 here; Debian 9 no issues. He hasn't tried Fedora/Centos or SUSE yet.

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                dyasny last edited by

                How did it (the fedora installation) fail? Sounds weird to me, those machines are ~2007-ish, but they have decent SAS interfaces and okay-ish xeons (for their time).

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                • travisdh1
                  travisdh1 @scottalanmiller last edited by

                  @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                  Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                  Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

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                  • scottalanmiller
                    scottalanmiller @travisdh1 last edited by

                    @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                    Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                    Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

                    Because it's for production.

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                    • travisdh1
                      travisdh1 @scottalanmiller last edited by

                      @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                      @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                      Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                      Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

                      Because it's for production.

                      How is Ubuntu more production ready than Debian?

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                      • scottalanmiller
                        scottalanmiller @travisdh1 last edited by

                        @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                        How is Ubuntu more production ready than Debian?

                        Support is generally considered an important thing for production. Primary vendor support, even if you don't pay for it and only maintain it as an option, is considered a hallmark of consideration for being in production. Think about Windows 7 and how people talk about it "going out of support" next year and what a big deal that is. But Debian has no support at all, so is in many ways similar to running Windows 7 many years down the road (without the part about being out of date.)

                        You can't use the "it's out of support" logic and "Debian is production ready" because it's conflicting. Ubuntu is basically Debian with enterprise backing.

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                        • RojoLoco
                          RojoLoco @travisdh1 last edited by

                          @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                          @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                          Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                          Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

                          Because it's for production.

                          How is Ubuntu more production ready than Debian?

                          A better question - how is that antique server ready for production???

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                          • scottalanmiller
                            scottalanmiller @RojoLoco last edited by

                            @RojoLoco said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                            @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                            @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                            Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                            Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

                            Because it's for production.

                            How is Ubuntu more production ready than Debian?

                            A better question - how is that antique server ready for production???

                            Not my choice, that bit is insane.

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                            • RojoLoco
                              RojoLoco @scottalanmiller last edited by

                              @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                              @RojoLoco said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                              @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                              @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                              Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                              Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

                              Because it's for production.

                              How is Ubuntu more production ready than Debian?

                              A better question - how is that antique server ready for production???

                              Not my choice, that bit is insane.

                              We have a few here, when they finally go away, I'm calling in scientists to carbon date the internal components and look for microscopic fossils inside.

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                              • DustinB3403
                                DustinB3403 last edited by

                                Does this server have Pentium II's?

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                                • scottalanmiller
                                  scottalanmiller @DustinB3403 last edited by

                                  @DustinB3403 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                  Does this server have Pentium II's?

                                  Might as well.

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                                  • Pete.S
                                    Pete.S @scottalanmiller last edited by Pete.S

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                    Think about Windows 7 and how people talk about it "going out of support" next year and what a big deal that is. But Debian has no support at all, so is in many ways similar to running Windows 7 many years down the road (without the part about being out of date.)

                                    Wow, that was a stretch. The main problem with Windows 7's end of life is that there will be no security updates. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Win7 customers don't depend on Microsoft support.

                                    Debian doesn't do support because Debian is not a company. So running Debian is simply like running Fedora.
                                    Customers either support it themselves or find 3rd party to do it for them. For a lot of customers that is not a good option so it makes sense to use a distro with commercial support options.

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                                    • scottalanmiller
                                      scottalanmiller @Pete.S last edited by

                                      @Pete-S said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                      Wow, that was a stretch. The main problem with Windows 7's end of life is that there will be no security updates.

                                      But in reality, MS brings them out for a long time yet. They are still patching all kinds of things for security. The big "panic" is about support ending, not patches ending.

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                                      • scottalanmiller
                                        scottalanmiller @Pete.S last edited by

                                        @Pete-S said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                        I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Win7 customers don't depend on Microsoft support.

                                        "Depend on" is never the factor. It's "is available". That's what is considered and what people freak out about.

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                                        • scottalanmiller
                                          scottalanmiller @Pete.S last edited by

                                          @Pete-S said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                          Debian doesn't do support because Debian is not a company.

                                          Of course not, and there is nothing wrong there at all. But there is no Debian company, that's the issue. Ubuntu is the company that takes Debian and adds an enterprise vendor and support options. It gets all the options that Debian has, plus more market share, plus the primary vendor to back you. Debian is awesome, but awesome because they make the base for Ubuntu.

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                                          • Pete.S
                                            Pete.S @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                            @Pete-S said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                            I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Win7 customers don't depend on Microsoft support.

                                            "Depend on" is never the factor. It's "is available". That's what is considered and what people freak out about.

                                            I disagree. It's the lack of security updates that has forced enterprises to upgrade. For servers it's different, but for desktops. Hell no.

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