Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:23:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904231917260.947-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <37205BD4.D7D1FDE3@statcan.ca>
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FYI, the rest of the letter went into how I would like being able to supply consulting clients with boxes from a familiar source and so they feel like the might not have to rely 100% upon me and othe routsiders. Not that they don't trust me, but they always ask about stuff that wasn't shrink wrapped by a big name. I also made the honest admission that I would probably only consider midrange systems from Gateway because I still prefer to build the mission/performance criticle boxes myself. I, however, would welcome a decent midrange server option. The antique story was just a warm and fuzzy thing to establish that I have been a Gateway customer in the past and happy about it. On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Mike Jeays wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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