From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 20:29:45 2012 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 6D1AB1065788 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:29:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from nk11p00mm-asmtp009.mac.com (nk11p00mm-asmtp009.mac.com [17.158.161.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5050D8FC1A for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:29:45 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (unknown [17.209.4.71]) by nk11p00mm-asmtp009.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <0M460011SOXE3640@nk11p00mm-asmtp009.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 20:29:39 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.6.7580,1.0.260,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-05-17_05:2012-05-17, 2012-05-17, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1205170232 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4FB533E3.9010805@centurytel.net> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 13:29:37 -0700 Message-id: <95ABE1AA-7867-4DF0-87A2-1A9BA00D40D1@mac.com> References: <4FB533E3.9010805@centurytel.net> To: lpeth X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Server 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: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:29:45 -0000 Hi-- On May 17, 2012, at 10:22 AM, lpeth wrote: > I have a 8core, 32 GB ram server I built myself. AMD cpu, with Supermicro motherboard. I want to use FreeNAS as a database system, and I'm wondering what it will cost to use FreeBSD with FreeNAS. I see the Version I would like is $40 for a four CD set, but that does not mean I get to use the server version of it. What is the server version going to cost? FreeBSD is intended as a server platform; there isn't a different consumer and server version, although you can tune the platform for specific tasks if you like. FreeBSD CD/DVD images are freely available for download; see: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ FreeNAS is a modified version of FreeBSD, which comes preconfigured for ZFS and filesharing; as far as I can tell, their CD/DVD images are also freely available: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.0.4/FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p2-x64.iso/download ...but you can pay a publisher for a copy instead of downloading, if you prefer. Regards, -- -Chuck