From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 23:19:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corsair.ult.co.za (mail.ult.co.za [196.36.48.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2826837B405 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 23:19:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from PhilS@ult.co.za) Received: by mail.ult.co.za with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:16:12 +0200 Message-ID: <290CF4046E74D511B73100805F65E60ACA5F@mail.ult.co.za> From: Phil Sadler To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: University of Cape Town Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:16:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I deal with the University and they are looking at upgrading servers, and Compaq has proposed Alphaservers running Linux. However, I am not sure whether they will be viable users of DS20E machines as I cannot find confirmation of FreeBSD being suitable to the new (???) generation of Alpha. Compaq actively promotes Red Hat, Caldera, Suse, but makes no mention of FreeBSD (or NetBSD etc). Would FreeBSD run on DS20E, and more importantly would this be a valuable investment, or should they rather deploy on Intel CPU's? The proposed solution includes Alphaserver for Linux, Proliants for NT, and thin clients for student access. So the other question is will thin client access via Citrix be able to run sessions on the Linux server? They currently use PC's dual booting to either the Citrix server or to the FreeBSD server. Hope someone can help out there!!! PS: I have an Alphaserver 300 at home loaded with TRU64. Would this be able to run FreeBSD? I also have a Dec 3000 model 600 at home loaded with OpenVMS. Would this be able to run FreeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message