Which distributions, kernels actually are stable with 9 generation servers?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

n 8/8/06, Mauri Sahlberg <Mauri.Sahlberg at pretax.net> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I have just wasted ten hours with 1950. I tried to install Dapper Drake
> to 1950 and after some Googling managed to get it boot after install.

> We have just asked quote for several  new servers and were going to ask
> quote for more. Unfortunately some of those servers are expected to run
> XEN 3.0.2 and some Linux distribution for next three years. But I will
> not dare to accept any quotes unless I can be sure that there is
> combination that actually will work and that combination can be safely
> updated including kernel. Unless I can be sure, I will be very tempted
> to ask for a quote from HP, Fujitsu-Siemens and IBM.

Ok, for support that is going to be with 3 years you are going to want
an 'enterprise' operating system. SLES-10 contains xen-3.0.2 and is
avaibable now. I think Suse's OS is also supported on the 1950 without
patches.

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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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