From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 8 06:45:48 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 AF56A16A41F for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 06:45:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A9F43D45 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 06:45:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E42E62C8AF for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:45:47 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65896-03 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:45:47 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B00B62C860 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:45:47 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 02A3346FB4; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:45:47 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E8C3A9DC for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:45:47 -0400 (AST) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:45:46 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060108023655.H1088@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Subject: Server vendor specific mailing lists ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:45:48 -0000 Not sure who best to send this to, but figured I'd send it publicly to see also if others think this idea might have merit ... Basically, I'm just about to take possession of my first HP server ... my biggest 'fear' is that HP doesn't support FreeBSD, but from posts I've seen here, that shouldn't be a problem ... what I'd love to see is a 'vendor specific' mailing list where ppl can more easily tap others brains for their experiences ... a "FreeBSD user support group for {IBM,HP,Dell} servers", that a FreeBSD user can turn to knowing that others on that list are using "their vendor of choice" for their servers ... Its hard to post to -questions, with the amount of volume that is in there, and keep track of things ... I'd like to be able to post about experiences with IFO, for instance, and how others running FreeBSD are avoiding (if they are?) using Windows for server monitoring, stuff like that ... Its not a "-stable vs -current" sort of thing ... nor an "-amd vs -i386" one ... its experiences with a specific server vendor ... Might be a good way of getting together groups of FreeBSDers looking to 'pressure' their various vendors-of-choice into supporting FreeBSD better also ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664