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@Xi SUPERIOR LINUX EXPERTISE Our company experience with Linux® & Unix® before then, starts in the early 90’ when our Xi® MTower™ SP received the prestigious 1994 BYTE Magazine/NSTL Lab award “MOST EXPANDABLE”. In the same years we were also pioneering the first dual processor Workstations & Servers, using Intel® Pentium® Pro with the early versions of Linux. We were working with two, at the time young, motherboard manufactures, Supermicro® and ASUS®, with which we enjoy a continuing prolific partnership to the present days. We have been installing and offering Linux based systems for over 20 years and three of our engineers at the time are still doing it now, here @Xi® Computers, capitalizing over the years of Linux experience. MULTIPLE LINUX ON MULTIPLE INTEL ® BASED HARDWARE PLATFORMS One of the great advantages of being a custom system builder is to be independent from specific hardware and software configurations typical of “en masse” production. For that reason we are able to side our huge hardware selections with a variety of OS platform including a long list of Linux distributions spanning from Workstations to Servers and HPC Clusters. In the process of optimizing a specific hardware and software selection, our experienced sales consultant will make sure all the integration compatibility issues are covered and otherwise addressed with the necessary modifications to satisfy all our client needs. The following is a list of the currently available Linux platforms on our systems and their most important features. RED HAT Linux As Red Hat Linux certified professionals we are able to cover multiple requirements for servers, workstation, clusters and clouds, offering our systems installed with the world’s leading enterprise Linux platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server  Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support Red Hat Satellite   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support SUSE Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise offers users the possibility of using Linux and Open Source by providing a scalable, high performance basis and reliability. SUSE Linux Enterprise also supports a wide range of hardware platforms and leading software applications; As NOVELL SUSE Linux partners we are also offering our systems installed with the following NOVELL SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support NOVELL SUSE Linux Enterprise Server   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support Ubuntu Linux Ubuntu Linux is becoming one of the friendliest Linux experience with great ease of integration, good community support and interesting features and applications. We are currently offering: Ubuntu Desktop LTS Stable release   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support Ubuntu Server LTS Stable release   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support Linux Mint Linux Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution based on Ubuntu or Debian that strives to be a "modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use. Linux Mint Stable release   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support CentOS Linux CentOS stands for “Community Enterprise Operating System” and is one of the most Enterprise oriented but still free and community-supported Linux computing platform. Aiming to compete with RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) has a great popularity in the scientific community... EOL Jun 30th, 2024 CentOS Stable release   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support Rocky Linux Rocky Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation. It is intended to be a downstream, complete binary-compatible release using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system source code. The project's aim is to provide a community-supported, production-grade enterprise operating system. Rocky Linux, along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise, has become popular for enterprise operating system use. The first release candidate version of Rocky Linux was released on April 30, 2021. Rocky Linux Stable release   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support Fedora Linux As Red Hat certified professional we of course support our computer with the Fedora Project. Fedora Desktop/Workstation   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support OpenSUSE Linux Again, as SUSE partners we are installing our systems with latest versions of OpenSUSE. OpenSUSE Linux   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support Scientific Linux Scientific Linux is an Enterprise Linux rebuild sponsored by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; is built from the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions. Scientific Linux   Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support Debian Linux Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel: Debian Stable release Helpful Links Product Overview Help & Support ATTENTIVE INTEGRATION AND SUPPORT While the support and popularity of Linux is constantly growing, many parts manufacturer do not enjoy the vast availability of drivers present with Microsoft® Windows® products. We are always attentive in the configuration and installation process of our Linux computers, but some components might not be completely supported by the specific Linux selected. In the pre-sales specification and building processes, we actively interact with our clients to assess and possibly eliminate any foreseeable HW-SW integration problems. While we are in general devoted to technically support our systems on a life time basis, our support for Linux, especially for the free Linux distributions versions, is relying solely on our experience and on what is found in the Linux community support. RECOMMENDED BEST LINUX® BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS Intel® based processors solutions AMD® based processors solutions Xi® MTower™ LE Workstation Xi® MTower™ PCIe Workstation Xi® MTower™ CX Workstation Xi® MTower™ 2P64X Workstation Xi® Render-RT™ HPC Workstation Xi® NetRAIDer™ 64XLT Server Xi® NetRAIDer™ 64XE Server Xi® BladeRAIDer™ 64X-1U Cluster Blade Xi® MTower™ 64 Workstation Xi® MTower™ 2P64 Workstation Xi® NetRAIDer™ 64 LT Server Xi® NetRAIDer™ 64 Server Server Xi® BladeRAIDer™ 64-1U Cluster Blade Each of the above links will provide a detailed specification of each platform and the access to a highly customizable system configurator capable of generating a custom quote. In each system configurator, for each hardware platform, most of the above Linux platforms are available for selection. For sake of brevity some of them are not present, but our clients can select “No OS Installed” option and insert in the notes field of our online quote system their OS preference. Our sales consultant will then be happy to optimize and propose the best option available in a custom quote. Dual Boot Windows & Linux are also possible.