why an old operating system

[Robert Huff]

prad writes:

>  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?

	Possibly because they haven't tested to make sure it works with
anything more recent.  (One might, or might not, speculate as to how
many FreeBSD systems they actually sell.)


					Robert Huff