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Fujitsu Bundling SUSE Linux

Posted by Zonk on from the bundle-bundle dept.

WillAffleckUW writes "Fujitsu, which already offers Red Hat Linux on its servers, is announcing plans to offer SUSE Linux as well, according to an Infoworld article. Sadly, it's only for servers and services for Intel, not for AMD. Still, good news, in that you can go Red or Blue and still be Linux true!"

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  1. Re:blue? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "No, I don't have anything intelligent to add to the discussion."
    Welcome to Slashdot, have a good stay.
    (;

  2. Re:Fujitsu by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually it could mean in Japanese Fu-jitsu, which if you wrote it in a different set of kanji, could mean "No-Skill"

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  3. Linux on Fujitsu by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 4, Informative

    My experiences with installing Linux on Fujitsu equipment has been absolute hell recently. The installation instructions for RedHat Linux on a lot of their sevrers force you to use a series of driver disks, then make a bunch of system hacks to get it to install. It takes forever to do, and it's a beeyatch to document it as well, and don't get me started on upgrading the kernel. I can't update it from RHN cause then I'll break all their little modules. So I'm stuck with an old kernel on their hardware. Debian won't go on their BX300 blades... well, it does, but not until you've jigged with the Promise RAID a lot. Also, BSD 5.4 is a PITA to install on a twin CPU RX300. You need to disable one of the CPUs to get it installed, then rebuild the kernel with SMP module.

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    1. Re:Linux on Fujitsu by nettdata · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I have had the EXACT same experiences... especially installing Suse via their remote management board... what a fscking joke.

      We bought a crap load of their RX200's, RX300's, and RX600's, and they're a PITA.

      That being said, their phone support for Linux was VERY good (at least here in Canada, where you had to call some guy in Toronto). They answered a bunch of questions we had and supplied us with some drivers we needed, but all in all, Linux is a HUGE afterthought for these guys, with Windoze being their main focus.

      For that matter, we had a hellish time installing Windows on the boxes.

      I'll buy/recommend Fujitsu gear again. I'm very happy with a bunch of IBM blades that we just picked up... can't say enough about xCAT, their Linux cluster management software.

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  4. Re:blue? by plaxion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Blue == INTeL
    Red == AMD [when overclocked] ;)

  5. blue? by ErichTheWebGuy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am a SuSE user, have been for about 3 years now. I used Mandrake before, and Mandrake has a gang of blue. Lemme tell ya, I *hate* green. It has taken me this long to get all the green out of my default settings in SuSE... And I am pretty sure there is some more in there somewhere!

    Where the hell did the poster get blue from???

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  6. Re: Suse Distro by Shigernafy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I will say that real men do not use: Redhat, Fedora, Suse, Mandrake, Gentoo or Debian.
    Now go find yourself a real Linux distro using that criteria, and you'll probably stumble on the correct one

    Testing this clever hinting, I decided to utilize every slashdot reader's favorite internet hegemon: Google!

    Doing a search on "linux distro -Redhat -Fedora -Suse -Mandrake -Gentoo -Debian" yields an interesting result..
    Check out this link if you're feeling lucky..
    or try this one if you want to see the search results. The results may surprise you!