Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:14:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: Patrick Calkins <pcalkins@oemsupport.com>, "Freebsd-Hardware (E-mail)" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Which hardware vender for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104192212210.54450-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <20010419215425.A11628@polands.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I have not followed this whole thread much, but I did purchase a Dell
PowerEdge a while back and put FreeBSD on it. It has been great. It has
a hardware RAID system which is very well supported by FreeBSD and
everything else works as you would expect.
When you look info the Dell hardware you can check for yourself if it is
compatible. Part by part you should be able to figure it out.
Brennan Stehling - software developer and system administrator
my projects:
home.offwhite.net (free personal hosting)
www.greasydaemon.com (bsd search)
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Doug Poland wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:50:18PM -0700, Patrick Calkins wrote:
> > Have a quick (or not so quick) question:
> >
> > I am installing a datacenter with web servers, mail servers, database
> > servers and file servers. I don't want any MS products if I can help it ;o).
> > The question is which commercial vendors are best to use if going with a
> > FreeBSD OS? I tried to talk to Dell and Compaq about it, but they seem more
> > than happy to help me if I am going to use all MS stuff, but mention FreeBSD
> > and they are all clueless about it. They don't even seem to up on Linux
> > either (although they both claim to support it, and ship their servers with
> > it if you need it). I talked to BSDi about it as well, they (naturally)
> > support the xBSD but it seems that they want to sell you the same hardware
> > that I can go to my local computer store and buy myself. I want fast,
> > reliable, good equipment. With the norm for a datacenter - RAID 5, hot-swap,
> > clustering, etc. I wanted to stick with a one vender solution if I could
> > help it. Does anyone know what Yahoo runs for their hardware vendors? I
> > noticed on mail.yahoo.com they sport a Compaq logo, but I thought they used
> > FreeBSD for their OS - does this mean that Compaq *really* does support xBSD
> > if you give them enough $$$??? I expect the project to be around $250,000 so
> > money really isnt a concern.
> >
> You might want to take a look at Apache Digital (http://www.apache.com)
> I bought an Athalon workstation from them a few months back and am well
> pleased.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Doug
>
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
>
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.21.0104192212210.54450-100000>