What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread User Freebsd
On various lists, there is talk about how to we make hardware vendors sit up and take more notice of us ... alot of the negative responses seem to be 'we are too small of a group', but, of course, nobody out there can really give any even *reasonable* numbers of desktops and servers deployed

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Something just for FreeBSD users (well, all *BSD users should be invited, Why not co-operate with Linux guys on this ? there's Free Net Open Dragon, & there' a load of Linuxes too, & a lot of the admin & design would be the same to collect stats regardless, .. & a lot of the hard admin tool d

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread User Freebsd
IMHO, it *has* to be an officially recognized project, not something someone just throws together and hopes ppl will register ... it should be something that ppl are encouraged to become members of, since our goal is to show vendors that we *are* a force ... but, it *should* be semi-anonymous

Donations sought for hardware purchase

2006-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
Hi folks, I'm asking for donations to purchase SATA drives for a new server. Details at: http://www.freebsddiary.org/opteron-drives-fund-raising.php -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php __

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread Darren
User Freebsd wrote: Who *big* recognizes FreeBSD as a viable operating system, at least openly? When PHK asked the FreeBSD community to donate USD16,500-33000 so he could spend 3-6 months working regular hours on FreeBSD, Pair Networks (pair.com) donated USD20,000. I don't know if that's "r

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread kevlar Hodge-Podge
I just want to see if I understand the issue correctly. From what it sounds like there would need to both be a server for all the individual machines to connect to, and some sort of scripted client to capture info on the machine and send it to the server. When asking about older machines such

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread User Freebsd
'k, there are at least two "clients" already in existence ... and, in fact, the one that I posted the URL about even has Protocol information included, so we *should* be able to avoid recreating the wheel here, only extend it ... I should *not* be a mandatory ... then we're as bad as other c

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread Darren
kevlar Hodge-Podge wrote: I just want to see if I understand the issue correctly. From what it sounds like there would need to both be a server for all the individual machines to connect to, and some sort of scripted client to capture info on the machine and send it to the server. When asking