From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 04:13:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1D4106564A for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:13:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoot.lafn.org (zoot.lafn.ORG [206.117.18.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4848FC0A for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:13:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (pool-71-109-162-173.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.109.162.173]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoot.lafn.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m3L4DhZM051549 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:13:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Message-Id: From: Doug Hardie To: Jerry Rukavina In-Reply-To: <000001c8a355$493496b0$6400a8c0@ATTALINO78QBFR> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:13:43 -0700 References: <000001c8a355$493496b0$6400a8c0@ATTALINO78QBFR> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/6858/Sun Apr 20 20:27:34 2008 on zoot.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Computers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:13:50 -0000 On Apr 20, 2008, at 19:13, Jerry Rukavina wrote: > Hi, > > I can=92t find any out of the box computers that have FreeBSD loaded. =20= > Do you > know which computer manufactures, both laptop and desktop, which can =20= > run > FreeBSD? Do you recommend any particular models or know of which =20 > ones are > more highly regarded? What about support? I am a newbie and would =20 > need some > handholding. I will be using the computer to run a small business =20 > and online > research. I would need the regular suite of productivity tools, =20 > hopefully an > open source. I would like to punt MS. Thanks. I recently purchased 2 servers from abmx.com. I was quite impressed =20 by the quality of the hardware installation. I didn't have an OS =20 installed, but they do offer that for FreeBSD, as they were intended =20 from the start to run 7.0 which hadn't been released at that point. I =20= have not looked at any of their workstations as I didn't have a need =20 for that.=