From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 27 16:49:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B71916A400 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:49:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marko.lerota@claresco.hr) Received: from zid.claresco.hr (zid.claresco.hr [85.114.42.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737FC13C4A7 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:49:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marko.lerota@claresco.hr) Received: (qmail 44526 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Feb 2007 16:49:20 -0000 To: Martin Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAJFBMVEWgnbRLVpRNVY9jMRPh s21jSlEyNVX45Mv4zI+sbUclFAtMVpT8V0lFAAACZ0lEQVR4nG3Tv2vbQBQHcFMogWyeNeVK BLXGl5j6xnABOaNTuXFGmWpwtw519yj4soW6AatT4GKD3+aDZrl/rt/Tr9qlGiz7Pn7v3bsf HVc/NrIiSfElqH53GgijcCqzk/+AmBF5cN0DsFlIRGMh/oHuqxkTM6VlzB4EoZEs2aSZOASb EQJYZpweQshE697GTDndBXtgp9LIT9+OpDGHEfb9knk+nx+jfN1JCVZMCl6XwFm0a2EXztZD 3s4fj47ZbKI2VeBmJImeEfGLJ+M9sDPilX7IB5rN6sdfcGhuoHU+LC4nxfnI7YOJtdb95Gb+ fbgJ2uJ2ZgaA++f5ZzBqNCCYfMTd5q0BfBVNqm7I8gUjQ+YtXotRW6PH9AEj+dKs/KuNQAl5 o/NY+QkonW8aQAl0oXMYPvRiXIM4pRJifbXytnhTA8alBx/jefG2ar3DBlt34/PXz9M+nMVN iNaPUdCApJc2ItejOmLGoK1qQLV9pJmXBnL10DYoBA5aHNfj8ZNwZa5O4CzgTJeilKJmrQJs IHIt1/7/Sg2p3iq/Hz0/5W05rq4M9aN2B5FLohUP4ylVyfxhEIjAs8J4PhIJ9U+CEroogib5 BXAf7bB4vkfAzgPFt1tM9sJZAOH+lCexhwswuNtim4QTZdokqo4o89LkH7V6iFxICeqfp+Wh fmUuGPunLj2Meti6Cn4DjJ/UReROqR+aqawAi/JkfgKE64rrfkhjU8MtT8ivR4S5n6Yo08A7 HvgAlHDWRSGlNSDxwK9HtXy4FS2I60EdUIJM+Ut9OZNJG4CpbEQW1VBQoQoPuBw2EVa4P0u0 TgzQF+VoAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC In-Reply-To: <20070223110654.770d3904@DELOREAN.manuelmartini.it> (list@manuelmartini.it's message of "Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:06:54 +0100") References: <20070223110654.770d3904@DELOREAN.manuelmartini.it> Organization: *BSD Users - Fanatics Dept. From: Marko Lerota Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:49:20 +0100 Message-ID: <86bqjfsfzj.fsf@sparrow.local> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable on Blade server X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:49:14 -0000 Martin writes: > We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can > anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc If you use FreeBSD don't look upon IBM blades at all. I've installed few freebsd 5.4 on IBM HS20 blades. If you need console, the only way to get there is through java web interface that sucks, brakes and crashes constantly. Because the keyboard is not supported you have to use it. Everything else also sucked. We had two blade chassis with 28 blade servers and I have never been so frustrated like I was with them and IBM people that did not solve our problem. -- One cannot sell the earth upon which the people walk Tacunka Witco