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From: "Dan Bikle" <dan.bikle@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations?
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Thanks!

I worked with the links you sent me.
For desktop systems I narrowed the list to these offerings:

http://www.asaservers.com/config.asp?config_id=ASA%5FPC5
http://www.storeanywhere.com/pages/html/products/st.product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=143
http://eracks.com/products/Desktops

-Dan


On 6/17/06, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/17/06, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server.
> >
> > Do you have any recommendations for some vendors?
> >
> > I could go buy some commodity hardware and do the install myself
> > but I seem to have bad luck with hands-on type tasks.
> >
> > I'm not picky about CPU; Intel or AMD is fine.
> > Anything over 1.5 GHZ should do it.
> >
> > RAM?
> > I guess 1GB would be good enough.
> >
> > Disk?
> > A couple of 80GB drives would work.
> >
> > I live in San Jose, CA; A local vendor would be great.
> >
>
> Your in luck, these guys are in San Jose:
> http://www.ironsystems.com/index.asp
>
> Here's the full list of venders:
> http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html
>
>
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