From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 10: 1:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from slash.ab.videon.ca (slash.ab.videon.ca [206.75.216.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D6B37B4C5 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rolf-e-laptop.meccamediagroup.com (firewall.meccamediagroup.com [24.108.76.66]) by slash.ab.videon.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA14095 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:01:24 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20001027105531.00a68988@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: redwards/firewall.meccamediagroup.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:01:26 -0600 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rolf Edwards Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD In-Reply-To: References: <14841.10909.686279.398519@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just ordered a Dell PowerEdge 4300 server tricked out to the max... The web site will allow you to choose an OS, or none. They didn't even flinch when I said I didn't want one. They offer Netware, NT4, Win2K, Linux, and they default to NONE!!! They even let you delete keyboard, mouse and even documentation... They are extremely flexible over the phone. This is in no way an add for them, but I was trying to spend $25G on a server, and IBM would take 6 weeks to build, Dell said they could have it in 2-4+4. Plus we have tripled the disk capacity for the same price. Strange eh? In any case the machine was built and shipped in two days...now just waiting for delivery of my new easy bake oven. RE >Yeah gateway wasn't one of them as far as I saw. Dell, Compaq and HP all >have Linux sections on their website and say they will sell you a computer >with it on it. HP's was very dissapointing as they say it but don't say >what models they offer it with and the link to buy them was broken. >None of them had any information on FreeBSD that I saw. If we would like >that to be an option in the future we should all search for freebsd on >all these websites search sections (they log that) and even email them to >ask to include freebsd computers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message