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[james at sumners.ath.cx]

Which is available on the CD. But, that doesn't matter when it comes to
Debian Woody as you probably well know. No boot flavor on the shipping
CDs contains everything necessary to load Debian on those terribly
annoying, in my opinion, POS Dells. In order to load Debian on a Dell
server you either have to a) track down a CD someone else has built for
the machine or b) build your own install CD. Has the kept me from
running Debian on several Dell servers? No. Does Debian run like a champ
and outperform even netbsd on those boxes? Yes.

A standard, download it from the front page, Debian CD loads just fine
on my HP box though. And it is MUCH more powerful than any Dell server I
have used ;)

As for a production machine that uses prism54... The only one I know of
is the router I just built last month. It is running Debian Woody with
three backports from backports.org.

Debian is stable. You know what you are getting with Debian. I don't see
why anyone would use something else on a machine that needs to be
reliable.

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:48:06PM -0500, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:25:28 -0500, Raylynn Knight
> <audilover at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> 
> > And just how many production servers are running a prism54 wireless
> > card?
> 
> Probably not many, but there are several thousand...if not
> million...Dell Poweredge systems out there with PERC3 RAID controllers
> which are notoriously flaky with 2.2.x series kernels regardless of
> the driver used. I had better stability with NT4 SP3 on those systems
> back in the 2.2 days! 2.4.(somewhere around 18) cured all that. We can
> discount the prism cards all day long, but are you willing to brush
> off a key component in one of the most widely deployed x86 server
> lines? Then of course there's the issue of systems with more than 2GBs
> of RAM, but who ever heard of such a silly thing as a production
> machine with a lot of RAM? Patches? Patches?!!! We don't need no
> steenking patches. There's this nifty project called the 2.4 series
> kernel.

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