From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 8 16:09:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ADB916A41F for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:09:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8159F43D4C for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:08:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C48D5CFC; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:08:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72077-03; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:08:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50F05C9C; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:08:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43C13919.5070900@mac.com> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:08:57 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: <20060108023655.H1088@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060108023655.H1088@ganymede.hub.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server vendor specific mailing lists ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:09:00 -0000 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Not sure who best to send this to, but figured I'd send it publicly to > see also if others think this idea might have merit ... > > Basically, I'm just about to take possession of my first HP server ... > my biggest 'fear' is that HP doesn't support FreeBSD, but from posts > I've seen here, that shouldn't be a problem ... what I'd love to see is > a 'vendor specific' mailing list where ppl can more easily tap others > brains for their experiences ... a "FreeBSD user support group for > {IBM,HP,Dell} servers", that a FreeBSD user can turn to knowing that > others on that list are using "their vendor of choice" for their servers > ... FreeBSD attempts to support all reasonably functional hardware; there isn't a great deal of difference between a Dell and an HP except for which RAID system and NIC they come with. You might find that mentioning the specific model you have would produce more useful feedback. You might also find asking the freebsd-isp list would produce responses more oriented towards people rackrounting and using LOM/remote management tools... -- -Chuck