From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 22:44:04 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 533A516A412 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:44:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B661243D45 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:44:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: (qmail 22317 invoked by uid 0); 19 Oct 2006 22:44:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Grumpy.DynDNS.org) (216.186.148.249) by smtp8.knology.net with SMTP; 19 Oct 2006 22:44:02 -0000 Received: by Grumpy.DynDNS.org (Postfix, from userid 928) id E9F412840A; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:44:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:44:01 -0500 From: David Kelly To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20061019224401.GA7216@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <4537DF7E.8070606@xxiii.com> <4537F1AA.4030601@dial.pipex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4537F1AA.4030601@dial.pipex.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Subject: Re: Recommended Hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:44:04 -0000 On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:44:10PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > Those have worked for me so far, and yes, it is labour intensive. If it was easy to do right then there wouldn't be any good reason for your boss not to hire the kid behind the counter at MacWhopperDoodle with a $0.50/hr raise to give your job to him. I agree with others. Ask what you want the hardware to do. Make selections then research as to whether your selections work well with FreeBSD. Don't fill a computer room on guesswork and reading, buy samples and test. Of particualar areas to pay attention: Video controllers. Look for X.org support. Disk controllers. Hardware RAID and the latest SATA chipsets may be an issue. Network interfaces. Most seem to work. Motherboard & CPU. FreeBSD seems to run on most any x86 but if you expect on board power management and health status you'll have to do some research. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.