hello everyone,

did enyone have installed linux os on dell T20? on dell site primary os for that server is win 2012 server.

Thanks

Sure. http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/.../201402-14632/

My freebie City Hall Dell servers chugg happily along without Windows.

My post is just to show Linux is compatible on that T20 since Ubuntu 12.04. I would not install 12.04 but go with a more recent Linux version like MX-14 for example or Ubuntu 14.04 or whatever current Fedora/CentOS version is out presently.

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so centos can be installed? I never installed on that machine. I mean in real world not what is written on dell site.

Not sure really. Ubuntu 12.04 ships with a

out of the initial install image. I am not sure myself what CentOS or Scientific Linux ships with?

So lets see.

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7

Looks newer to me. Grabbed the above from

http://wiki.mikejung.biz/CentOS_7#Up...Kernel_to_3.17

You should just be fine installing CentOS 7 or Scientific Linux 7 I would think. Newer Kernels than Ubuntu 12.04 mean better hardware support in my experience. Especially on newer gear. I run a 4.1 kernel on my Dell 755 server which is older
than your server but I was OK from kernel 3.13 when I first installed. I just upgraded as I went along. My 2 kernels now are 3.19 and 4.1. I seem to remember kernel 4.0 had a ext4 file system bug in it or something.

Give it a try and see. I never read Dells site when I got my free 3 Dell Servers. I just booted some live pen drives and went all medieval on them. With no worries what so ever.

thanks this was first time on T20 installation and was succesful CentOS 7 without problems.