The Super Micro's we bought three years ago are dieing right and left. We are now buying Dell and quite happy. Dell system we bought 5 years ago are still running. My person opinion though. <div> On 2/2/07, Claude Jones <<a href="mailto:claude_jones@levitjames.com">claude_jones@levitjames.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sat February 3 2007, <a href="mailto:linuxmaillists@charter.net">linuxmaillists@charter.net</a> wrote: > Wal-Mart is still selling only from their website one system > with Linspire installed. They have been doing that for > about 5 years now. > > <a href="http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3762912">http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3762912</a> Actually, they were selling those in my local Walmart at Christmas two seasons back. Thanks to all who responded. I got so irritated with Dell, that I was finally able to overcome the corporate predilections, and I sold them on a SuperMicro barebones system; we're going to put dual Opterons in it with 4 GB of ram, and use it to run a vmware server. Unfortunately, I couldn't convince the cheese to go with a Linux server running vmwareserver, so I'll be installing Vista on it. This is a beautiful machine in case anyone is interested - it has eight dimm slots and can take up to 16 GB of memory (actually up to 32 GB in one configuration); it has 8 hot swap SATA2 drive slots in the front. It was suprisingly cheap, considering what it is. I have no experience with supermicro boards directly, but they're considered the primo setup for non-linear video editing systems I use, and are constantly praised on that board. If anyone wants to see this box, you can go to <a href="http://mwave.com"> mwave.com</a> and click on barebones systems in the left column, and then click on barebones servers Thanks for all the responses -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote> </div> -- Jamie Bohr