hardware, list of compatible servers

[Alan Dacey]

On Monday, September 27, 2010 06:20:44 am Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Hello
> 
> So far I have only installed (K)ubuntu (or Linux in general)
> on PC with the X86 architecture.
> 
> Most likely I have to try a server (whose architecture is
> different from the Intel PC I presume), for example a 
>  	
> Lenovo ThinkServer TS200v 0981.
> 
> Can anybody please point me out a web site (like Linux on
> laptops ) or a list, which gives information about the Linux
> compatibility of these servers?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Uwe Brauer 
> 
> 

Don't look at the server itself, look at the parts that make the 
server.  A quick search on the net found that it comes with an 
Intel cpu, no problem there.  Intel graphics should be no problem 
for server duties, if you even install a desktop.  What you need to 
look at is the other parts like what chipsets make the nic run.  I 
don't feel like downloading this [1] so look at the specs and google 
each one with "linux" after it.  That will tell you about it.   Probably 
no poroblems, but I don't have one so I'm not sure.

[1] http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/svbook.pdf

Alan