System i Addict

So being a fan of iXSystem and still wanting them to send me a server to DEMO, wink wink, I love the site redesign. I am not sure when they did it but it’s new to me and I like it. iXSystems is doing great things with FreeBSD and PC-BSD that we all have dreamed of. While both operating systems are truly remarkable, they have taken ownership of many parts of the BSD OS and made them come to life and this is very important. FreeBSD is still one of my favorite OSes out there and I try to get people to run it all the time. I have it running here (on a really old DELL, hint hint) and it runs great. I do testing and sandbox work on it. PC-BSD just makes sense and is getting very close to being right up there with Ubuntu with less of a developer community and less staff to work with.

Check out their NEWS page to see all the super stuff they are doing with BSD.

iXSystems makes some really clean really good looking server and if you are looking for a small simple pizza box like UNIX server these guys are the pros. I have talked to them many times on the phone and they all are very passonate about the work they do. The first time I blogged about them here on this very site they found me and called me to thank me. You don’t get that from other comapnies, in fact most companies don’t give two toots about bloggers and see them as problems, which may be correct in some cases but we do have things we all like and I love iXSystems. I love them for owning the ideas behind BSD, I love them for building BSD specific servers and storage solutions. I love them because they promote PC-BSD and i love them that they took time out of their day to call me and thank me about talking about that them the first time.

They now have a BSD based Laptop and Workstation. If you don’t want to build your own just call them up and wham you too can have a little BSD making life a bit better. I would love to see how those two little items run.

So if you are thinking about a SUN solution or a Linux solution you might want to give these guys a call first. They have UNIX or BSD based solutions that they support and are passionate about and if Lotus Domino was supported (notice I did not say run, because I have it running on FreeBSD just not being supported by IBM Support) on FreeBSD I would run it on iXSystems Servers in a heart beat.

Oh and they also run the FreeBSD Mall. I sure hope a redesign and some more modern products show up there was well. I know I talked to a few of the guys and asked for some more simple designs, Just the beastie ball on a black golf shirt? That’s all I want. This is to busy, it screams I am a geek and I don’t know how to dress. be more subtle.