> On Monday 17 March 2008 22:12:05 you wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > back in time (but not to long ago), I served 3000 email accounts for >> > a Swiss multinational insurance company on a P133 with 32MB RAM. >> > >> > That is no big deal, however. sendmail and any Unix like system >> > can handle that without problem. >> >> Until a few years back, all the emails for one of the most widely >> recognized global brands went through 3 gateway servers (think 250k >> employees, and a whole bunch of automatic notification emails) that were >> freebsd, sendmail, and either dual ppro 200mhz or dual P2-400mhz. >> >> softdep really helped them out :) > > Nice! > Got any more _freebsd_ success stories for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > No. But I will be shutting down a ten year old Linux server, where I am the only one which actually changed and burned the EPROMs of a rather rare kind with the software needed to make the mylex Raid6 controller working in a few days. The thing kept sitting in the basement without UPS and anybody ever doing anything, just running and running... Almost as good as novell 3.x and nowadays openbsd, some things just keep running... The guy at mylex was quite happy that finally somebody made use of the code they wrote for this at the time "ancient" piece of hardware and surprised. ;)
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