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Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:30:50 +0300
From:      Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@wlansystems.com>
To:        Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@wlansystems.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
Message-ID:  <4850C29A.7030604@wlansystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080611195604.GA2881@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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Frank Shute wrote:
> I didn't think you'd be having the odd game of Quake on one of your
> boxes. But think of it as an added feature! :)

Oh, doom does not require fp, its integer only and on 100MHz Pentium it 
was very smooth!  I did couple of hour-long doom sessions on one of our 
FreeBSD routers while waiting for a bug to regenerate itself in one of 
our pops some time around 1996 :)

> I was referring to the 100MHz 486 you looked at.
> 
> I'd still get an fpu so you can install a largely unpatched OS of your
> choice even if the fpu is redundant beyond installing the OS.
> 
> I guess you looked at the Soekris stuff and discounted it. Shame,
> because a lot of folks find them useful with *BSD.

The last I checked Soekris boards were using more power.  We use similar 
boards from pcengines.ch for wireless routers.  This application I am 
working on needs a computer with VGA and sound interfaces.

>>>> Heikki
> 
> Regards,
> 



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