Any Linux distro which is supported on EFI enabled XServe

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Published on 2011-11-28T09:28:24Z Indexed on 2011/11/28 10:00 UTC
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I am looking into installing Linux on a test XServe machine and see how it goes overall. We have our entire infrastructure on OSX and would like to move to Linux servers.

Is there any distribution which has good support for XServe? Google search yielded nothing conclusive. I don't mind hacking around for personal use (compiling kernel, tweaking packages and configurations) but when running in production it's good to be cautious.

Paying for commercial support is definitely an option.

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