Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:35:05 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> Cc: Daniel Hagan <dhagan@cs.vt.edu>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 Message-ID: <19990424003505.A3063@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904230208020.3377-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com>; from Adrian Filipi-Martin on Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 02:13:11AM -0400 References: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9904220807070.23500-100000@vtopus.cs.vt.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904230208020.3377-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com>
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On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 02:13:11AM -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
> 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.
Just to play Daemon's Advocate for a second -- is this a good thing to
point out? Is the hardware vendor not going to think "Er, hang on,
they're not going to want to upgrade their kit every year from me if
I support this OS. But if I support Win* then they're going to be
upgrading every year. . ."?
N
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