Thanks for the input. Yeah, my research has been more linux specific. My feeling was that Intel would perform well under linux, but browsing around most of what I’ve been finding are posts from a year ago, and nothing more current. I’m assuming that the cards (and more specifically driver support) would only get better in time (assuming it’s not the next optane… haha).

Probably not a bad idea. I’m in the process of upgrading to 10gbe.i have all the nics, and a switch… Just waiting on cables. Once I have the cables, I’ll be getting my cluster together. Right now I just run my three nodes as separate instances.

Tumbleweed with KDE is my favorite flavor. I have all sorts of machines and vm’s running which use Debian, Ubuntu, Leap, Rocky, and Alma.

Tumbleweed is my daily driver. Ubuntu and Debian have been my primary vm distro, but Alma and Rocky I’ve been dabbling with. I use Leap on various apple machines I have as it seems to play nicer with the stupid Broadcom wireless adapters apple uses.

Thank you to the dev’s as always!! I’ve updated one node so far, and it went flawlessly! Two to go! Keep up the great work, devs!