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.
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.
…and thanks HP!
“We at HP recognize the important role of FreeBSD in the Internet’s global network infrastructure”… Very nice phrase!
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
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.
Such is the nature of Capitalization … give only as much as is needed to achieve individual gain.
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!
Do your best to help.
1) Write documentation.
2) Answer questions on mailing lists or posting boards.
3) Spread the word.
and i do agree, what they are doing is great for the BSD’s. it also works out great for HP, as this story will get covered by a ton of online, and prolly several offline sources, this was prolly the cheapest publicity they got all year.
It’s also nice in that this becomes publicity for BSD, just seeing the name in writing is good all around.
Way to go HP!!! I like it!
for once a piece of news that does not impose a “comment war”
i agree with the others
Whatever makes the FreeBSD project more efficient and more capable is more than welcome.
If that means to split some cheap publicity with a big corporation, who really cares? It is publicity for FreeBSD as well and I’m happy about that.
It wouild of been even better if HP started selling systems with FreeBSD preinstalled.
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