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Gentoo:
5 x86 boxes(My main rig, alienware lappie, Dell dimension XPS 733 celery installed, Dell Latitude CPiA, Dual PIII-550)
1 x86-64 machine(Dual Opteron 240 test)
5 PPC machines(G3 powerbook, eMac, Dual 1.2 G4, 9600/300, 7300/200 with G3)
1 PPC64 machine(1.6 G5 test)
3 sparc boxes(3 Sparcstation 5's?lets talk about slow!!)
1 ultrasparc box(ultra 10)

RedHat
1 x86 SMP server(will be changing as soon as I get the goahead)
 
After trying the more common Distros such as Mandrake10, Fedora Core 2 and Suse 9.1, I have been experimenting with the smaller 1 CD ( not live ) distros. Yoper, Blag, Aurox , Gobo and Libranet are all fun
to play with. Couldnt get Debian to work. It hated my HP370 Raid Controller. Vida Gentoo had too many bugs
and mini Slackware wouldnt see my NIC. What can I say I love Xandros look. I sure have learned alot since
these smaller versions demand more use of the command line but still have trouble installing Nvidia Drivers
and configuring my Network settings.
 
Originally posted by: Basie
After trying the more common Distros such as Mandrake10, Fedora Core 2 and Suse 9.1, I have been experimenting with the smaller 1 CD ( not live ) distros. Yoper, Blag, Aurox , Gobo and Libranet are all fun
to play with. Couldnt get Debian to work. It hated my HP370 Raid Controller. Vida Gentoo had too many bugs
and mini Slackware wouldnt see my NIC. What can I say I love Xandros look. I sure have learned alot since
these smaller versions demand more use of the command line but still have trouble installing Nvidia Drivers
and configuring my Network settings.
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Linux LVM > propriatory raid. Especially if you have fast cpu (>1.5ghz) especially especially if you have dual cpus.

With 3 HD's devices on that you could run raid 5 if you wanted... (boot partition still needs to be regular non-lvm) Even on a regular IDE-PCI adapter. (or even with the normal IDE controllers in motherboards, and I think that if you use SATA they can even be hot-swapable.).

So it's something you should check out.

Nvidia drivers shouldn't be that hard. The tricky part is the kernel sources/headers...

if you get tired of dealing with the default networking scripts that come with your distro, you could possibly replace them with your own commands in the /etc/rc.local (or equivialent for your distro) or create your own full sys-v style networking script. I use that (rc.local) for my laptop because Fedora's GUI network config stuff irritates me.
 
I am currently dual booting into ubuntu. I clicked debian because it is debian based. Easiest to learn in my opinion. But that is, if you can use the xchat irc channels to get live help. Which has taught me alot.
 
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