On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Jon Peatfield wrote:

>> Is there a hardware compatibility list for SL 5.4 out there somewhere? Any 
>> more suggestions on hardware?
>
> I've had no problems wih recent sl5 on Dell desktops, workstations and 
> servers (optiplex desktops, precision workstations or poweredge servers). For 
> the Precision and poweredge Dell offer to sell them with RHEL5 so will 
> clearly work fine with sl5.

Are you still adding a graphics card because you don't
trust the SL support of the onboard graphics chip ?
Do you use (or at least test) sound support ?

> Generally all the big (reputable)  manufacturers will certify that their 
> (enterprise) machines work with RHEL5.
>
> Occasionally people here buy desktop machines (usually from random 
> box-shifters) without checking with anyone who knows about sl compatability 
> and for those we commonly have to install an extra NIC (and in a few cases 
> not use the onboard SATA ports)...
>
> Usually the onboard NICs do get supported within a couple of releases though 
> there have been a few exceptions.

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