Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 10:38:00 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Oliver Blasnik <oliver.blasnik@de.tiscali.com> Cc: Lanny Baron <lnb@FreeBSDsystems.com>, beemern <beemern@ksu.edu>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel SE7500CW2 narrowed down... Message-ID: <3DEE4B88.4781DFF1@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.33L.0212040824270.9632-100000@unix2.cc.ksu.edu> <015301c29ba9$737e98d0$1d0a310a@de.tiscali.com> <001801c29bb5$f09a5ff0$0200a8c0@noemie> <01ed01c29bb9$d8027550$1d0a310a@de.tiscali.com>
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Oliver Blasnik wrote: > And, no, why should we buy (a) from the US and (b) from a "small" OEM? To get working hardware? 8-) 8-). > Working in a european-wide company has some side effects - for example > a policy to buy only specific servers from specific vendors (which have= > to be available in all that countrys). So, there are only the "Big > Players", f.ex. HP, SUN, ...=B4 > = > Back to track: this is no solution; buying hardware by OS needs and not= > by system needs/policy/[insert-any-other-reason]. If the OS doesn't wor= k > with a standard hardware it's simply of no use. Don't get me wrong, I > WANT to use FreeBSD - but this isn't my choice anymore if it does not r= un > on our typical hardware. I hate to use Linux and I definately hate to > use Solaris (and even pay for that crap). May I suggest that you buy MP Intel motherboards from the Intel Server Products division of Intel, rather than from the division of Intel that decided not to stair-step PCI IRQ's by slot, until two years after everyone else did it so that everything would not end up on "INT A"? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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