Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 02:39:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> Cc: Daniel Hagan <dhagan@cs.vt.edu>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904230224510.7028-100000@vnode.vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904230208020.3377-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com>
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It has been nice to see the response people have given this advocacy project. It is especially nice to see a few "Major Accounts" back us up. Gateway really starts to notice when a "Major Account" makes a move. Maybe us Gateway Major Accounts should have a powwow on how best to help gateway move in the direction of FreeBSD. -Chris On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > hi folks, > > I already sent some mail to Gateway inquiring about their options. > I haven't hear back yet though. I thought I'd share an anecdotal paragraph > from my message. You could say I'm trying to show that FreeBSD has been > runing on Gateway boxes for a long time. In fact, I actually has 386BSD > 0.1 on it until FreeBSD 1.0 arrived on the scene. ;-) > > > FYI, about 5 feet from where I'm typing this, is a genuine > Gateway 486/66E that was subsequently upgraded to a 100MHz > processor. This box has been a dedicated FreeBSD box for > most of the 7 years since I bought it from Gateway. Even > at such a tremendous age in high-tech years, it still makes > a great ISDN router, mailserver, webserver, ftpserver, NFS > fileserver, IMAP and a few other services. You could say > I'm a satisfied customer who is interested in new the > options. A new mid range server would be a nice replacement > for this old box. Then again, if it ain't broke, why mess > with it. > > cheers, > > Adrian > -- > [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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