I bought my first server! BAM

ServerMurder · 02-03-2021, 10:00 PM

I bought a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen 8 Rack Server Intel Xeon E5-2620 on eBay. It was $80 plus $50 shipping and works I hope! I want to put debian on it what do I choose? amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips mips64el mipsel ppc64el s390x

uteck · 02-03-2021, 10:04 PM

It is Xeon, so it is 64-bit. Use the amd64 version, the rest you listed are various Arm chips or PowerPC.

Turbocapitalist · 02-03-2021, 10:08 PM

If it has an Intel Xeon E5-2690 processor then your choice is amd64 or i386. The former will have the better performance.

However, Debian as a project is not at all what it once was and not longer matches the good reputation it earned in the 1990s. You might look at upgrades like Devuan instead, though still amd64.

ServerMurder · 02-04-2021, 12:08 AM

okay thanks! That amd was confusing me because I was like but it has an Intel possessor haha. I am just looking at the download page https://www.debian.org/releases/bust...ian-installer/ Hopefully I get it Friday an I want to set up a web sever from my house.

jefro · 02-04-2021, 05:34 PM

Intel® 64 ‡
Yes

Instruction Set
64-bit

Instruction Set Extensions
Intel® AVX

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us...intel-qpi.html

While it is linux amd64 it is really both amd and intel 64.