From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 22 23:16:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from thneed.ubergeeks.com (thneed.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A71B914FF1 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:16:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by thneed.ubergeeks.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA03590; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 02:13:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) X-Authentication-Warning: thneed.ubergeeks.com: adrian owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 02:13:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Daniel Hagan Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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