Looking for powerful machines that runs FreeBSD on it

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Tue Aug 14 18:43:10 PDT 2007


Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Caio Figueiredo Abecia wrote:
>> I'm looking for a new pc.
>> I had a problem installing BSD (Free/Open/Net!) with the Dell 
>> Dimension C521n. (Free/Open BSD website tells me that it support the 
>> E521 that have the same configuration)
>> It don't recognize my dell usb keyboard and my SATA DVD Rom drive was 
>> not detected at all.
>>
>> I call Dell support and I was complaining that when I saw that model 
>> on their website and I called to the vendors they said that this 
>> model would come without SO (Windows). That I'll be free to make my 
>> own choice on using any *unix SO.
>>
>> Well.. now Dell will get my machine back and pay me back the amount 
>> that I payed.
>>
>> Now I want to buy a powerful machine to run Development things such 
>> Java or Ruby on Rails on JBoss, running in some good db like 
>> Postgresql or MySql.
>> I don't want to get a new surprise to run only Windows on my machine!
>> (I already have 2gb ddr2 ram, I want a powerful modern pc to run Free 
>> or Open as my Desktop System)
>>
>> Could you guys please help me ?
>>
>> Thanks a lot all help is greatly appreciated 
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> Why not built one from the parts. That way you would save bundle of 
> money and have the computer which will run FreeBSD without a hitch. 
> That is what I did.

Not everyone has this option, or the expertise. And some people like the 
warranty that comes from buying Dell products.
-Garrett


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