Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:53:38 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, cliftonr@lava.net Subject: Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ? Message-ID: <E1MFiew-00056y-5b@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <E1MFZba-000OCF-H8@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1MFZba-000OCF-H8@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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> > I'm not 100% sure, but fairly sure that you'll have a hard time > > finding something that combines the low-power standalone type spec with > > a 64-bit capable processor. Once you get the higher-end processor, > > That was my experiense when shopping around yes - annoying as I > don't need anything particularly low power (it ain't going to > be my leccy bill :-). > > > becomes a more likely failure point, and so on. Can you elaborate a > > bit more on which parts of that system spec you really need - do you > > need the GigE? Two ethernets? The external SATA? > > It needs to be: > > 1) Complete as purchased - I dont want to build a machine > 2) Capable of having a simple boot device (e.g. CF card) dropped in > 3) At least one ether port. 100 meg will do. > 4) Small enough to be posted to the end user > 5) Cheap - under 400 euros, preferably 300 > > I do not really care about processor speed, or memory, or power > consumption. It needs to run FreeBSD, and I would prefer amd64 > as we havent written or used any of our code on 32 bit in a long > time, and I would feel uneasy that there might be laten bugs in > it if we simply recompiled it for 32 bit. > > > I bought one of these from them last year: > > http://www.fit-pc.com/new/fit-pc-1-0-specifications.html > > Thanks for the links - thats pretty interesting! I notice the newer > ones are also Atom based, so similarly spec'd to what I was > looking at, but they may be more suitable. > > cheers, > > -pete. I've had very good experience with: http://www.pcengines.ch/ danny danny
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