From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 15:04:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CAC6106564A for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:04:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD4A8FC17 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:04:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m5PF4atD012865; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:04:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080625100228.0251a628@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:04:23 -0500 To: prad , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <20080624225958.10007934@gom.home> References: <20080624225958.10007934@gom.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080625-0, 06/25/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93/6806/Wed Apr 16 15:50:16 2008 on betty.computinginnovations.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: m5PF4atD012865 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: why an old operating system 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: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:04:55 -0000 At 12:59 AM 6/25/2008, prad wrote: >in our search for servers we contacted genstor (on the freebsd >compatible hardware list) and a very nice fellow talked to us and sent >us a quote. it was out of our price range, but i was very puzzled to see >that the brand new and powerful system they were putting together was >going to be operating with freebsd 5.4 > >why would a new system such as this be supplied with such an old os? > >-- >In friendship, >prad Prad, You'd need to ask them why they are using such an old version. The good news is that FreeBSD will run on almost any x86 motherboard, you need to check compatibility for things like RAID cards and other specialized peripherals. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.