questions over dragonfly

[Tomas Bodzar]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:06 PM, dark0s Optik <shiftcoder at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't know about iXsystems. It has good machines, but:
> 1) where is the price?

Just ask them. Not so much companies shows prices for those machines.

http://www.boston.co.uk/products/workstations/default.aspx
http://www.workstationspecialist.com/product_range/
http://www.armari.com/tesla.asp

> 2) I'm italian and not american, how can I receive that machines?

Prices for transportation between USA and Europe are much more better
then inside Europe, but there will be taxes and VAT I suppose too.

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> 2010/6/16 Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bodzar at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:19 AM, dark0s Optik <shiftcoder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 1) But I think configuration is:
>>>
>>> http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=bedw52h&c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&kc=server-poweredge-t410
>>
>> Better configuration, but at least similar CPU and chipset is eg,
>> available here http://www.ixsystems.com/item/20/90 so there is some
>> hope that it may run or may run in the future.
>>
>>>
>>> 2) My notebook is sony vaio vgn-nr21z and cannot install over this
>>> computer dragonfly or freebsd
>>>
>>> 2010/6/16 Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bodzar at gmail.com>:
>>>> It's not because Linux is such a good, but because most of the HW is
>>>> just cheap crap and Linux is ok with that status. See eg.
>>>> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=125783114503531&w=2
>>>> In the end you must buy HW for OS you want to use. If it's not a
>>>> choice like for already existing HW then you need to choose OS which
>>>> will be running of course. Anyway the golden rule "Use what's
>>>> appropriate for you and your use" is still valid. It can be anything
>>>> from any BSD, over Linux, Solaris/OpenSolaris to Windows or MacOS.
>>>>
>>>> BTW what notebook do you have?
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:09 AM, dark0s Optik <shiftcoder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I'd like to buy a dell server and to install DragonFly.
>>>>> I notice that BSD is more problems than Linux installation, for example,
>>>>> I not be successful to install any BSD system over my notebook.
>>>>> My question are:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) DragonFlyBSD install successfully over system like this:
>>>>> http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/servers/server-poweredge-t410/pd.aspx?refid=server-poweredge-t410&s=bsd&cs=04
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) I'd like run some vkernel machine over that system to serve
>>>>> clients, is a good solution or is inadvisable to serve clients
>>>>> with vkernel machines?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> only the paranoid will survive
>>>>>
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>>> --
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