The FreeBSD Foundation received a donation of a blade system from Hewlett-Packard for use as a third-party software build cluster. This 20-node HP BladeSystem cluster triples the speed of the build process for i386 packages.
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This is absolute great, but what i do not get is the fact that there still is no good support for the raid and fan status of a proliant server for freebsd.
They do care about FreeBSD but you still can not get utilities to monitor every aspect of your hardware under FreeBSD.
i think that is strange.
But thanks again HP
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In total agreement!
If "HP recognize the important role of FreeBSD in the Internet's global network infrastructure", then why don't they list FreeBSD as a supported Operating System and offer drivers and management agents for the Operating System? If I had the opportunity, I would love to load FreeBSD on our servers and have HP "officially" support this configuration on their hardware.
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It stumps me sometimes how outfits like the BSDs and most Linuxes - made up of mostly volunteers and donated equipment - can come up with products that rivals those of billion dollar companies. I sometimes feel guilty using their great products in that I am too poor to donate. But I do my best to spread the word and help newbies using FreeBSD.
Thanks to Open Source contributers everywhere and thanks to HP!
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Me too !!! Old UNIX vendors can use BSD to replace HP/UX Digital Unix and Irix. They could port ll their utilities to thems. Imagine a NetBSD / MIPS64 visulalization system by SGI or a PA-RISC with OpenBSD or even an Alpha with FreeBSD or even a OpenDarwin NeXT/CUBE. Imagine ll the posibilities. I must be dreaming of course