Re: Linus Distro for an HP Itanium EFI based server

[Mitch Wiedemann <]

Boot an Ubuntu live CD and see if all your bits and pieces are
recognized. If so, use Ubuntu. It's easy to install and use, and runs
VirtualBox very well, so I imagine VMware will work without any trouble
at all.



Jason T. Slack wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have acquired an HP Integrity rx2600 with 16GB of RAM (because
> someone needed xmas money and they sold it to me for $600) Has dual
> Itanium processors and about 400GB of HD space.
>
> I would like to know what Linux distributions support this machine the
> best. HP says RedHat Enterprise Edition, SUSE Enterprise Server,
> HP/UX, OpenVMS and Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition.These are
> all really expensive and I would like to find something different.
>
> This machine will actually be my development machine as will need to
> run VMWare or some other virtualization solution so I can keep things
> separate. I have a lot of contracts right now for software development
> work and I prefer that each have a separate VM instance to keep things
> separate and organized.
>
> Does anyone have thoughts?
>
> -Jason
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