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Subject: Re: HP or Compaq servers.
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>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:14:40 -0400
>To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
>From: Bob Collins <bob@anything-inc.com>
>Subject: Re: HP or Compaq servers.
>
>At 02:30 PM 7/15/2003, you wrote:
>>Grzegorz Czaplinski wrote:
>>[ ... ]
>>>That would be good to have a webpage with server configurations that run
>>>under FreeBSD. Don't you think so?
>>
>>Keeping the list of supported individual components up-to-date is a 
>>significant challenge.
>>
>>Trying to keep a list of complete system configurations available is 
>>exponentially more difficult, but you're welcome to try.  You first might 
>>want to compute the number of permutations from choosing, say, 6 
>>components per system out of 1000 components.
>>
>>--
>>-Chuck
>
>
>Sure it would be. But it might be interesting to let users input what 
>hardware they are currently using and any notes about weirdness, etc. 
>Perhaps a volunteer project to list these things is in order.
>
>-- Bob