I manage a small but growing network. I've always used Microsoft in the past, but their new licensing and XP activation has finally pushed me over the edge. I mean not to ever purchase another Microsoft product again. Consequently, the platform I need will be used initially for testing purposes, to implement a wide variety of Linux alternatives. Stability is essential, performance/speed is a nice perk. When I monkeyed around with linux several years ago, I was constantly confronted with hardware support issues. I know things have changed radically since then, but I just wanted to make sure that I got a good server platform to tinker with. I always prefer to build my own systems, I like to know exactly what's in my servers. I've been kind of eyeing intel's server boards, particularly the SE7500CW2. For workstations, I was mostly looking at Asus's nforce boards. Any comments, or something I should know about these two platforms. Thanks a bunch, tartarhus.
-- Chaos is the better order.