Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:46:19 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Chris Coleman <chris@bbcc.ctc.edu>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gateway Computers Message-ID: <4.1.19990215164219.03b3df10@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990215114551.17470A-100000@bbcc.ctc.edu>
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At 02:52 PM 2/15/99 , Chris Coleman wrote: >I just spoke with my contacts at gateway. We are one of their major >accounts, so they do take some notice of us. I asked them about shipping >computers with FreeBSD installed, instead of WinNT. My contact is going >to look up the person in the engineering department that I would need to >send "Evaluation Copies" of FreeBSD to. > >(Jordan, I might need some FreeBSD CD's soon :-) > >She said that she hasn't had any demand for alternative OS's and didn't >see it on their immediate software road map. > >Well, it looks like it is time to generate some demand, or at least some >notice. > >You might suggest to your contacts at Gateway, (if you don't have any, >make some) that it would be really great if they would ship their web >servers with FreeBSD. > >Or, suggest that you would like to see "FreeBSD Certified" on their web >pages. > >Since Dell is offering Linux, its probably a good time to focus on Gateway >to get them to offer FreeBSD. Yeah it's such a shame that any recent Gateway 2000 product I've had has died relatively shortly. Thus I no longer have anyone purchase from there. It's unfortunate that their motherboards are Certified-Micronics POS. My 386DX-33 (2499$ from Gateway at the time) ran fine. It was the first machine I ever used FreeBSD (or Linux on (0.99pl22 of Slackware at that time)). For 4mb/120mb it was a pretty decent machine for the job and did not die before it was put down. The 486-SX33 killed 4 motherboards. The P166MMX Destination at work killed 2, until I finally just replaced the base with a Sony VAIO PCV-210. My current machine is a Supermicro SC701-A Case with a P6DBS mainboard. I think I'll stick to building and designing. This machine is pretty beastly. However, I do really like the 6 Sony PCV-210's I managed to snag for 899$ a piece. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP DSS/1024 Public Key ID: 0x409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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