Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:35:54 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@MooseRiver.com> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why an old operating system Message-ID: <20080628223554.GA51508@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20080624225958.10007934@gom.home> References: <20080624225958.10007934@gom.home>
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--C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:59:58PM -0700, prad wrote: > in our search for servers we contacted genstor (on the freebsd > compatible hardware list) and a very nice fellow talked to us and sent > us a quote. it was out of our price range, but i was very puzzled to see > that the brand new and powerful system they were putting together was > going to be operating with freebsd 5.4 >=20 > why would a new system such as this be supplied with such an old os? >=20 > --=20 > In friendship, > prad I'm not sure who you talked to but I deal with Genstor on a weekly basis. The company I work for has a long history of buying from Genstor and we have found that they are very proficient with FreeBSD. They will set up a machines for you with almost any version of FreeBSD you want. Almost as in anything older that 4.8 will be a real pain to get working on modern hardware. Their base install of FreeBSD is 6.3. Another vendor you should look at is iX systems (http://www.ixsystems.com/). They also do a great job with FreeBSD systems. Josef --=20 Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 6.3 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFIZrzKy8prLS1GYSERAgSoAKCNi00PxeWa92Ste9n3bQsMZbWgyQCgvnGR nvHK50LWY9NJYMMSHtzhPZg= =CEK3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc--
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