Koozali.org: home of the SME Server
Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: curtshayes on February 11, 2005, 11:25:29 PM
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I have a COMPAQ DL380 and I'm trying to make sure that SME will work on there.
The server has two hot swap drives (SCSI/mirrored) and a DDS-4 40GB HP SCSI Tape Drive.
I've searched for hardware compatibility lists, etc and am not finding anything on this site.
Also, what is the advantage of running SME over a true Redhat distribution?
Thanks,
Curt
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sme is based on RH 7.3
You can check out the RH HCL here:
http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/SME%20HCL
The advantage? You're here and not there.
thanx,
dak
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Great, thank you -
The reason I'm here is because our software vendor sent me here. I've never heard of this distribution until then.
I guess I'm looking for advantages over going with a RH distribution - or if it's mainly cost related.
Thanks again,
Curt
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Curt...
I am a funny guy to respond to this because I do not currently have a production SME install. I administer three machines: 1 Debian, 1 WBEL, and 1 Fedora Core 3. Two of these are in heavy daily use by a school. The other is a backup, administrative machine at the same school.
Two years ago I contracted to set up a linux machine for someone else to administer. I picked SME. It does a few things very well. It has an excellent selection of packages, and it is designed for a non-technical person to be able to manage users, shares, etc. w/o hacking *.conf files. You set it up correctly, and it is the energizer bunny of the server rack.
SME has a few quirks, but it is an excellent collection of packages, and if I were today setting up a server for someone else to administer, I would probably pick SME. If my brother in law wanted a server for his small business, I would install SME and show him a few things. I would not be expecting to do a lot of tech support.
Regards... Tom