From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 27 10:40:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E85437B9F7 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:40:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (2186 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:36:17 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-7) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:36:16 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt To: Shawn Kelly Cc: Chris Shenton , mjy@geizhals.at, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reliable rackmount servers? In-Reply-To: <20000727133140.9831.qmail@web5103.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Wow, this is the second response that I've recieved like this. I was > excited to see all of the Compaq support in FreeBSD since we are a > Compaq shop. But now, I have to re-think this. I was hoping to convert > a couple of my servers to FreeBSD in the next year or so to free up > some licensing. I guess I should consider another platform, if thats > the path I take. > > I'm supposed to be making my life easier with FreeBSD, not > complicating it further. As usual, more recent experience is usually a better than less recent. Hardware compatability usually gets way better over time and onboard stuff for servers frequently leads available Unix drivers a little. If someone has good experience with something (like Compaq servers), they will try it again. Once someone has a bad vendor experience, they will likely hate it forever. I used to hate Dell and HP servers after earlier hair-pulling experiences, now I'll use them *IF* I can test install and shake them out. Don't expect me to play with another SMP AST Manhattan server again for a while though! (^_^) If you are a 'Compaq shop', take a machine you have there and try installing on it. Change the DRAM and add a drive to prove you can and try banging on it. You are already into Compaq support for your other servers and, when you have a server that can't run Win2K, FBSD will likely easily prove you can get more performance out of your hardware. You also have a good source of spare parts about your campus... Hope this helps - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message