Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:44:40 +0000 From: Mike Woods <Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU Message-ID: <41EEC6B8.5080908@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1527489.20050119210646@wanadoo.fr> References: <e3.b3403dc.2f201026@aol.com> <1527489.20050119210646@wanadoo.fr>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: > At least someone is thinking of it. There are a lot of PCs out there > that are still in perfect working order, but are too slow to run the > hugely bloated desktop operating systems (and the "server" versions > thereof) that are popular today. Efficient operating systems like UNIX > can give these machines new life and purpose and save tremendous > resources in the process. We have here at work a whole load of p3 450's, tad old and not of great use as student machinesodd's where a lot of them where ultimatley desined for the bin, however a little while ago a getleman from our LRC asked me if it as possible to configure a printer to behave in a certain manner, intialy i said no but after some thought i got back to him and told him i might be able to develop a unix based system to do the job and here i am several months later in the process of producing a boot cd for the first release and having 5 print stations and a one development station all running freebsd, all the previously doomed p3 450's and hopefully i'll have about 10 more deployed before i go to my new job. The server too is a "Recycled" machine, the only new parts are it's raid controller, drives and raid cage and psu (old one was too small for the 4 drives), most everything else came from an old p3 600 the boss was playing with and the case came from an old p2 300 server that was decommisioned when i was a student :) I think it's fair to say *nix oses in general reinforce the idea that just because it's not bright spangly and new it doesnt mean it's useless but freebsd moreso purley because of it's superb hardware support and the fact that generaly it's just a case of install it and go :) ------------- Mike Woods IT Technician
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