From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 24 2:59:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11B0114E77 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 02:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) id AAA04019; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:35:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:35:05 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Adrian Filipi-Martin Cc: Daniel Hagan , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 Message-ID: <19990424003505.A3063@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Adrian Filipi-Martin on Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 02:13:11AM -0400 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Bagel: The carbohydrate with the hole To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message