On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Wednesday 09 Sep 2009 2:11:28 pm Krishnakant wrote:
I really dn't know about the intencity of your project or its scale. But Debian as well as ubuntu is deployed on many heavy projects at the server side. And I think the kind of hardware devices you were refering such as the USB controller etc are supported in the latest kernel versions. All in all You can be pritty confident about the server. If at all you are concerned then it will also be a good idea to consult some professional support provider for debian. There are a lot of them around in Mumbai as well.
one of them has already replied !
regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
Thanks for the support. Just to state my concerns here is an e.g. I've a Dell Server with 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller. Now upon looking up on http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl I found that it was not supported. So if I was to look out for support for this device on a Linux kernel, then how am I supposed to go about the problem. And like this there are several other devices like PCI Express to PCI X Bridge, LPC bridge etc. for which I am unable to verify availability of support. So how do I go about finding support for these hardware components ? And yet another question would be "Are these components really critical for normal server operations ?"
As for seeking support from third party is concerned, that won't be possible because in that case I'd rather opt for RedHat or Suse which already provide support for their products. Sorry to disappoint anyone if this statement did so :)
Regards, Mayank