Ubuntu on Dell PowerEdge R905
Ubuntu Certified hardware
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The Dell PowerEdge R905 server has been awarded the status of Ready for Ubuntu.
Releases
Ubuntu 10.04.4 64-bit
Testing details
This system was tested with 10.04 LTS, running the 2.6.32-24.39 kernel.
Certification notes
- There are no notes for this release.
Hardware overview
This system was tested with these key components:
- Processor
- AMD Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8356
- BIOS
- Dell Inc. 4.2.1
- Video
- Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI ES1000
- Network
- Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet
- Storage
- Dell Virtual Floppy
- Storage
- Broadcom HT1100 SATA Controller (PATA / IDE Mode)
- Storage
- LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078
- Storage
- Dell Computer Corporation DRAC 5 Virtual Media

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