Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:47:14 -0500 From: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recommended Hardware Message-ID: <20061020234714.GC29479@dfwdamian.vail> In-Reply-To: <20061019224401.GA7216@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <4537DF7E.8070606@xxiii.com> <4537F1AA.4030601@dial.pipex.com> <20061019224401.GA7216@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:44:01PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ Regarding system boards, make sure you also check out the support for any on-board components like networks interfaces, RAID controllers, audio and video, firewire, etc. I've got an ASUS K8N-E system board at home, but it uses the NVIDIA chipset so virtually none of the on-board components function. -Damian
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