From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 30 20:59:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from charleston.softhome.net (charleston.SoftHome.net [204.144.231.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A7BC14EF5 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 20:59:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bradley@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 13892 invoked by uid 417); 31 Mar 1999 05:19:54 -0000 Received: from max2-ppp-38.cyberix.com (HELO BillyJoeBob) (207.8.199.102) by smtp.softhome.net with SMTP; 31 Mar 1999 05:19:54 -0000 From: "Brad Benson" To: Subject: RE: emachines Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:57:41 -0500 Message-ID: <000301be7b33$017bed40$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 In-reply-to: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > So, it looks like the emachine people are looking for resellers. Given a > number of successful reports concerning using FreeBSD on the emachines, it > would be cool is Walnut Creek (or someone else) started shipping $400 > machines with FreeBSD + XFree86 installed, as workstations or low-end web > servers. Presumably with the add-on option of technical support :-). Or > if they were sold as web-farm modules; at $400 for an add-on module adding > n-hundred-thousand hits a day capability. I use an Emachine at work and love what I've got for the buck. No problems yet and FreeBSD works fine all but the cheap software modem. As a reseller I would love to do many of the things you mentioned, but the only thing your forgetting is that a $400 Emachine comes with windows98 and that for a reseller to make any money off the machine they would have to raise the price to do the software install. Suddenly it's a $500 dollar Emachine for example. What would be nice is if we could talk Emachines into installing it as an option from the factory, or supplying a software free computer for a discount. I have a feeling though that there isn't a large enough market YET for Emachines to do either. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message