why an old operating system

[Derek Ragona]

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

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