Jeroen Massar wrote:
Same reason why Windows Servers are a good thing to give to
organizations that have stupid people, they won't be able to understand
OpenBSD either, but clicking is something that almost everybody can do.
Going OT but it is interesting how this argument works in IT but ask
Brian Keefer wrote:
There ARE a number of vendors selling OBSD solutions, actually. One I
remember running across is LOK Technologies.
Drivers should NOT be an issue - you're building an appliance, it should
be pretty simple to picl compatible s/w.
Lee
It's not to say there aren't
Tautvydas wrote:
Hey List,
Little off topic, but I need some help. For a week I'm working in a
small company. (~250 workstations). Till 2008 there will be 400-600
workstations. So, they are planning to buy something for spam/mail
filtering
It is not bad at all:
a) You mention stupid people, thus give them something simple.
As they won't know how to use OpenBSD nor maintain it. Thus unless you
want them to need you for all the upcoming years, and thus pay you the
money for maintaining the box, get them that barracuda box with a
* Tautvydas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-21 20:33]:
What I know now - barracuda is a blackbox. I've read that there is
simple web interface. IMHO, it sounds not very good at all.
the barracuda boxes are rusty stinky old redhat with spamassassin and
some web interface.
at least, they used to be
Which I don't understand - if you're going to sell a blackboz, why not
use openbsd instead of some stinky redcrap or that piece of shit
rhell? Centos is just an enabler, tyvm.
On 1/21/07, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Tautvydas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-21 20:33]:
What I know now
[reordered mail to let the reply make sense again]
On 1/21/07, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Tautvydas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-21 20:33]:
What I know now - barracuda is a blackbox. I've read that there is
simple web interface. IMHO, it sounds not very good at all.
the
On 2007/01/21 21:14, Jeroen Massar wrote:
mentions the url containing their modifications:
http://source.barracuda.com/
heh...at least that webserver appears to have a more
sensible choice of OS.
On Jan 21, 2007, at 12:33 PM, bofh wrote:
Which I don't understand - if you're going to sell a blackboz, why not
use openbsd instead of some stinky redcrap or that piece of shit
rhell? Centos is just an enabler, tyvm.
On 1/21/07, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Tautvydas [EMAIL
On 1/21/07, Brian Keefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because driver support for Linux is a lot better than for OpenBSD,
I'm not sure if I believe this to be as strong an argument since, as
the blackbox maker, you have your choice of hardware. This means you
can choose hardware that runs openbsd
On Jan 21, 2007, at 4:34 PM, bofh wrote:
On 1/21/07, Brian Keefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because driver support for Linux is a lot better than for OpenBSD,
I'm not sure if I believe this to be as strong an argument since, as
the blackbox maker, you have your choice of hardware. This means
the barracuda boxes are rusty stinky old redhat with spamassassin and
some web interface.
at least, they used to be about a year or two ago
We evaluated their top of the line model a year and a half ago. 15,000CAN$
for a crappy 1U i386 machine with Realtek 8139 NICs in it. I just
about
That isn't too bad in the grand scheme of things, actually. After
all, there's a lot more costs involved. When I was doing the flea
market, I needed 100% margins. Remember also, the main customer base
is more used to click and point - ie, less technically savvy, ie,
needing more help. There
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Brian Keefer wrote:
The company I worked for considered switching our appliance OS to a
*BSD from Linux, but in the end we decided that commercial support
was too important to ignore.
There ARE a number of vendors selling OBSD solutions, actually. One I
remember running
Don't get me started. I opened a $30,000 XP-based A/V box at work the
other day to find out it had some crappy $50 pseudo RAID card doing
RAID 1. I didn't buy it so I kept myself from looking around at the
rest of the parts to avoid discouraging behaviour.
Greg
Thanks List. Know I know what
There ARE a number of vendors selling OBSD solutions, actually. One I
remember running across is LOK Technologies.
I'll look for them. Thanks.
Drivers should NOT be an issue - you're building an appliance, it should
be pretty simple to picl compatible s/w.
For sure.
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On 1/21/07, Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't get me started. I opened a $30,000 XP-based A/V box at work the
other day to find out it had some crappy $50 pseudo RAID card doing
RAID 1. I didn't buy it so I kept myself from looking around at the
rest of the parts to avoid discouraging
On Jan 21, 2007, at 8:00 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Brian Keefer wrote:
The company I worked for considered switching our appliance OS to a
*BSD from Linux, but in the end we decided that commercial support
was too important to ignore.
There ARE a number of vendors
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