From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 23 4:42:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from stcgate.statcan.ca (stcgate.statcan.ca [142.206.192.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 087CF14E9D for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 04:42:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeays@statcan.ca) Received: from stcinet (stcinet.statcan.ca [142.206.128.146]) by stcgate.statcan.ca (8.9.1/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA06885 For ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:47:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from statcan.ca by statcan.ca (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA14349; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:40:42 -0400; sender jeays@statcan.ca Message-ID: <37205BD4.D7D1FDE3@statcan.ca> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:39:01 -0400 From: Mike Jeays Organization: Statistics Canada X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------A844BB0EBD3DD8F0BAB17E6F" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------A844BB0EBD3DD8F0BAB17E6F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is great advocacy from the point of view of users, but it may not be what hardware vendors want to hear! It shows up the way in which Microsoft and Intel have steadily jacked up the "need" for up to date hardware all too clearly. 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 --------------A844BB0EBD3DD8F0BAB17E6F Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="jeays.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Mike Jeays Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="jeays.vcf" begin:vcard n:Jeays;Mike x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:jeays@statcan.ca x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Mike Jeays end:vcard --------------A844BB0EBD3DD8F0BAB17E6F-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message