Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 06:39:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@freeside.fc.net> To: higginsj@iname.com Cc: metcalf@snet.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jdunham@awesome-f0.us.dell.com Subject: Re: Anyone using FreeBSD with Dell Dimension Hardware? Message-ID: <199806171139.GAA12839@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980616215430.432A-100000@localhost> from James at "Jun 16, 98 09:58:00 pm"
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James babbled:
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:58:00 -0400 (EDT)
> From: James <dominus@minos.dyn.ml.org>
> To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <metcalf@snet.net>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote:
>
> > I'm considering the purchase of a Dell Dimension R333 or R350. My
> > company has Dell as a vendor, and I can get a serious discount.
> > Hopefully somebody out there can verify that FreeBSD is happy with
> > the hardware used in these machines. I have posted to the XFree86
> > newsgroup asking whether or not the STB NVidia AGP video card is
> > supported, but any comments from FreeBSD fellows on this issue is
> > more than welcome.
>
> I dunno about that specific model, but I have seen 2.2.6 on a Dell P2-266,
> 64 meg sdram, 3 gig ide hard disk with a 4 meg ATI Rage II onboard video
> card and it liked things pretty well. It was using a 3COM but I am not
> sure which. I don't know about sound.
>
> I think it was a Dimension. If not it was an Omniplex(?).
Dunno about the particular product in question, but I'm aware of quite a
few Dell boxes running FreeBSD (and BSDI) here at Dell with no apparent
problems. I haven't paid attention to whether they're Dimension or
OptiPlex machines, but I could ask if it would be any help. (They're in
a different building where I seldom go.)
My expectation is that any Dimension product would be about as "industry
standard" as anything on the market, since they're built around standard
Intel motherboards. OptiPlex machines are all internal Dell designs, so
there's more opportunity there to be incompatible with BSD, but that
doesn't mean they will be.
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