Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:23:45 -0400 From: Jan Knepper <jan@smartsoft.cc> To: Rolf Edwards <redwards@meccamediagroup.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD Message-ID: <39F9BA20.C1166716@smartsoft.cc> References: <14841.10909.686279.398519@guru.mired.org> <5.0.0.25.2.20001027105531.00a68988@127.0.0.1>
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Cool! I've got quite some good experience with Dell and their delivery as well. The weird things was though that the first machine ever placed in order with them took almost a month. Everything after that has been delivered within a week! Believe it or not. I got the sales rep kinda confused on the phone when I told him I didn't want all the free software and I didn't want the operating system. <grin> I also told them that they seriously should look into preinstall of FreeBSD as well. To bad so many people still thing it is a brach of Linux... Don't worry, be Kneppie! Jan Rolf Edwards wrote: > 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 -- Jan Knepper Smartsoft, LLC 88 Petersburg Road Petersburg, NJ 08270 U.S.A. http://www.smartsoft.cc/ http://www.mp3.com/pianoprincess Phone : 609-628-4260 FAX : 609-628-1267 FAX : 303-845-6415 http://www.fax4free.com/ Phone : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) FAX : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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