From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 10:31:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20890 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:31:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dragon.axil.com (dragon.axil.com [206.33.98.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20879 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:31:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard.cownie@axil.com) Received: by dragon.axil.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Fri, 29 May 1998 13:30:51 -0400 Message-ID: From: Richard Cownie To: Mike Smith , Richard Cownie Cc: jak@cetlink.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD on 8-way SMP PPro Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:30:49 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmm, I probably have to tread carefully here and repeat my disclaimer that these are my personal views rather than Axil corporate policy. 1) Axil's main focus is building and selling high-end NT servers. As you'll see from the website http://www.axil.com, all our marketing is focused on NT 2) In the design of the hardware and Bios, we have adhered closely to the Intel MPS spec and other standards - so *in theory* any and all well-behaved OS's should work. However, as a relatively small company we don't have enough technical people to do extensive testing or active support of many different OS's. Ans as you know, if you haven't tested it, it doesn't work (usually). 3)Unixware on NX801 definitely does work, and several customers are running this. So there is a precedent for selling non-NT systems. If anyone wanted to buy a box to run any other OS (FreeBSD, Linux, DOS :-), then we'll probably sell the box, while making it clear that Axil won't provide support for the OS. 4) Until recently Axil also built SPARC boxes, and much of our internal development enviornment is still based on SPARC/Solaris/NFS; so we don't have any ideological objections to Unix. So I think it's probably ok to say "some guy at Axil has FreeBSD running", which is nothing more or less than the strict truth,as long as you don't raise any expectation that corporate Axil is putting big resources into this. Cheers Richard Cownie [] [] From: Mike Smith [SMTP:mike@smith.net.au] > Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 11:01 AM > To: Richard Cownie > Cc: Mike Smith; jak@cetlink.net; current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 8-way SMP PPro > > Do Axil have an opinion at all about non-NT operating systems and > their > hardware? There's quite a lot of "wow" power in saying to someone > "this > guy at Axil has FreeBSD running on one of *these* (points to > picture)", > and it really does lend some serious credibility to the project. > However, it's not the sort of thing that you want to do if Axil > corporate have a dim view of other operating systems, so I'd prefer to > be a little careful about it. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message