From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 18 15:56:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DB916A407 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:56:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E1443D78 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:56:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so397656uge for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:56:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=TPTuqGhYv/NXnHznQZyoK5/B8QWyRAj+cmDb9eBy1qtBuSMAY0+zL6Ev+QFKeNIGl3YA6VOqcO1nd3WGIk9bQs7LgKXrGc6n5PGuXJncl+lQ59BFZ0F9H3oPmHeJwbk3XzafxYnKAHDAdvx/OblzcPhYRUCtnB0JW9s80zBZ18o= Received: by 10.67.100.12 with SMTP id c12mr7314437ugm; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.106.8 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <226ae0c60609180856j1174081cn5510aa94403f139@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:56:22 -0400 From: "David Robillard" To: "ke han" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: freeBSD certified server hardware ? 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, 18 Sep 2006 15:56:26 -0000 > Does anyone know if any server manufacturer of high regard is > currently certifying for freeBSD 6.1? > I know the general answer is check the components on the release > notes. I also know there are a few integrators on the community list > (wow, some of their list pricing is much higher than the big > names!!). Doesn't HP, Sun, IBM, Dell have anything they certify for > FreeBSD? Is this expected to get better over the next year or so? > thanks, ke han Hello ke han, To my knowledge, none of the top vendors have any certification for FreeBSD. What I suggest you do is have one of the sales rep set you up with a test machine. The easiest way to do so is to go at their offices with a FreeBSD install disk and try to boot/install it on the hardware you're interested in. That's what I do with HP, Sun and IBM (IMHO, try to avoid Dell). On the other hand, there is a company at http://www.freebsdsystems.com/. By their name, one would think that the hardware they push should work fine with FreeBSD. I never dealt with them, so I really have no idea if they're good? Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122