From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 10 9:10:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wi4d22.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.101.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CAB137B401 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 09:10:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AD771AF52; Fri, 10 May 2002 18:10:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 18:10:30 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow To: Josef Grosch Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@bafug.org Subject: Re: What hardware do you use ? Message-ID: <20020510161030.GA22703@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg> References: <20020510153118.GA23467@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020510153118.GA23467@mooseriver.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josef Grosch writes: >This question came up at last night BAFUG meeting. What hardware do people >use and/or recommend? Specifically, if you were going to build a machine, >using commonly available parts and just to run a generic kernel, what >ethernet, video, motherboards, etc, would you use and/or recommend? The most reliable machine I ever had (and still have) is a VAXstation 3100, running NetBSD. That's rather off-topic wrt your question though but it's my opinion that whatever off-the-shelf PC hardware you buy these days, you'll never reach the robustness of the well designed and engineered minis and workstations from about 10-15 years ago. --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message