Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 17:30:43 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: FreeBSD-CURRENT Mailing List <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Kudos to all! Message-ID: <v04220818b5110afcada4@[195.238.1.121]>
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Folks, I'd like to extend my thanks and give kudos to all who have been involved in the process of creating FreeBSD 4.0, from -CURRENT up through -STABLE, and beyond to wherever that might take us. We had a new Dell PowerEdge 6350/500 server that arrived here yesterday, and although the machine was bought to run Windows NT as a games server, the admin of the machine wanted to install and run Linux on it first, just to play around. Well, Slackware, Debian, and RedHat all seriously bombed out in one way or another. He even tried OpenBSD, but again no luck. They were convinced that there was a very serious hardware problem, and that they'd have to ship the machine back. On a lark, I slipped in a FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE kernel floppy, and began what is clearly the easiest and simplest boot & installation procedure that they appear to have ever seen. It worked the first time without a single hiccup, it installed in *way* less time than anything else they've ever done before, and I think I pretty seriously embarrassed them. ;-) I don't know if this will win us any converts from the die-hard Linux camp, but I think it certainly demonstrates the quality of the product that this project has produced. Oh, and the machine did get very quickly wiped -- it's running NT now. However, I don't think they'll ever bother to try to run Linux on it again. ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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