Looking for powerful machines that runs FreeBSD on it

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at msu.edu
Tue Aug 14 11:46:42 PDT 2007


On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:41:31AM -0700, 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 ?

Try FreeBSD systems.     http://www.freebsdsystems.com/

I have heard only good things about them.

////jerry

> >
> >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.
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