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Dell Releases Ubuntu-Powered Cloud Servers
angry tapir writes "Dell has released two servers for the US market that have been customized to run Ubuntu-based cloud services. The company has outfitted its PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers with Canonical's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), an implementation of the Eucalyptus private cloud software that runs on the Ubuntu Server Edition operating system."
Dell blah blah blah Ubuntu blah blah blah cloud blah blah blah enterprise blah blah blah three letter acronym blah blah blah server edition blah blah blah
Linux is a kernel. GNU/Linux is the operating system. GN/Ubuntu is a LiGNUx operating system.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
...they mean they pre-loaded Ubuntu UEC on them, wow!
We purchased 16 C2100s in August. If you like being a Dell beta tester, have at it. The LSI RAID controllers they have in these things are, for a lack of a better word, complete crap. Technically, it's probably the drivers ... but until they have a working driver for linux that doesn't lose its mind and reset the card randomly (thus making your volumes disappear for a minute or two), I suggest staying away. Far away.
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The UEC combination has gotten decent ratings if you want to put your anti-Canonical prejudices aside. Dell hardware ain't all that bad these days.... the combo is a damn sight cheaper than buying a fat HP box with VMware on it..... and you get to reuse some of your code on AWS.
Yes, there are clean, virginal, can-wear-white-at-the-wedding implementations, too. This one uses kvm, if memory serves, and beats threading the whole thing together yourself.
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The idea that Dell would push Linux in the server space is pretty old news really.
Contrary to popular Lemming opinion, Microsoft doesn't have the stranglehold in the server market that it has on desktops.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
If you were seriously in the enterprise you'd know that the added cost of a HP over a Dell is well justified. When you need to keep things running on this level there is no time to pinch pennies.
HP may be the fair to midrange PC on the Best Buy shelf but in the enterprise it kicks the crap out of anyone else. This includes their business desktops.
That should link to http://linux.dell.com/ screwed up my own HTML link.
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Well yes... but supporting RHEL is not supporting Linux, just as supporting Ubuntu isn't supporting Linux. It's kind of like saying a company supports Mac. What version... OS9, OS/X Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard?
So to put in a nutshell, they're a RHEL shop.
Which is fine and dandy if you stick to RHEL (and for many shops, it's just a matter of sticking to a single distro.) See, the original question was as follows:
Why buy Linux from a traditionally Windows-only integrator with little Linux experience?
That question itself makes no much sense since 1) there are many distros of Linux, each with its own idiosyncracies, and 2) Dell is not a Windows-only integrator given that they also do integration work with RHEL, a well-known Linux distro (and ergo pointing to the claim of Dell having little Linux experience (they do through RHEL) a fallacy.
The post made by the AC (the one you were replying to) then makes a lot of sense ("No, Dell is not a Windows-only integrator, and they have a lot more than 'little' experience on Linux via RHEL"), more sense that the post it replies to. That is, AC's post points to the fallacy of the post that preceeded it.
So, given that RHEL is a well-known distro, one that is also of widespread use, it is then quite acceptable to say that Dell (or whoever) is a Linux integrator. The opposite of this would inevitably and logically imply and demand a definition of "Linux integration" to cover every single major Linux distribution at best (and to cover every single Linux distribution independent of obscurity or adoption at worse). It makes no sense, and it is a definition that has no practical value beyond the strong distro predilection of people, not companies or needs.
A company wants servers to run on Linux with some type of integration support. Be it Ubuntu or RH, it is of small relevance as the decisions to go with Dell or whoever are more in terms of volume, price and other factors beyond the name of the distro. So, in that backdrop, saying that Dell is a Linux-distro is a legitimate statement.
Mind you that I don't care much about Dell and their equipment TBH.