From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 09:22:25 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 580EB500 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relaygateway01.edpnet.net (relaygateway01.edpnet.net [212.71.1.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB1C320 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:22:24 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnoGACAlY1TV25Oz/2dsb2JhbABcgw5UWYMGyRoKhnpVAoEaFwEBAQEBfYQCAQEBAwEBAQEgKwgYCxALGAkTDgICDwUTAQkIJAgHBAEcBIgXDQm3EpA0hhYBCgEBAR6QQwEBAU4HgjZBEoFCBYcDkAqEGoMJAYFxlHaDfTwwB4EIgTwBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AnoGACAlY1TV25Oz/2dsb2JhbABcgw5UWYMGyRoKhnpVAoEaFwEBAQEBfYQCAQEBAwEBAQEgKwgYCxALGAkTDgICDwUTAQkIJAgHBAEcBIgXDQm3EpA0hhYBCgEBAR6QQwEBAU4HgjZBEoFCBYcDkAqEGoMJAYFxlHaDfTwwB4EIgTwBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,367,1413237600"; d="scan'208";a="284553605" Received: from 213.219.147.179.adsl.dyn.edpnet.net (HELO mordor.lan) ([213.219.147.179]) by relaygateway01.edpnet.net with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 12 Nov 2014 09:46:17 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:21:12 +0100 From: Julien Cigar To: Chris Maness Subject: Re: Small/Low Power Server Recommendation? Message-ID: <20141112092112.GO8131@mordor.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="i0LFOk513GRb+T2w" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:22:25 -0000 --i0LFOk513GRb+T2w Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:57:02AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: > I am looking to replace a huge noisy old server that I have used for years > for my home business. Looking for something inexpensive and relatively > small to replace it with. Any recommendations guys/gals? I was even > thinking of buying a used laptop to run FreeBSD on and set it and forget > it. Not sure what options are out there as I have not put together a > server in many years. we're using a Soekris 6501 here at work as a router/dns cache/proxy/... and it works like a charm .. The only problem is that it doesn't boot with the default GENERIC kernel (on amd64), due to the lack of an ACPI BIOS >=20 > Thanks, > Chris Maness > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform (http://www.biodiversity.be) PGP fingerprint: EEF9 F697 4B68 D275 7B11 6A25 B2BB 3710 A204 23C0 No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. --i0LFOk513GRb+T2w Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABCgAGBQJUYyaIAAoJEAi2KiTKQR5pk60P/3cZ6mngVPXiGGbgGBmvXI5p ob7BGAqA1C7em+PYii8c6yNyyLGsfwo2uvee7IOP4w5BYC4Uu9wLXc2KB6kKxXPv Lt1i+oNPmdIG2l9W5L8UTShxlv7vIfnQyyZ9Ff4sctQa89p30JVwZMxKZPIsCjzv sUZNhT3n8KiaUDTavBgYY1rvZYJKloZpgp374DFFI06rcdNq3vXgDRfgOSbEKrJJ RM0sATftIVDWXo0tnTAohxkqP9qTIJLxyAtpX2+P47nah0HZimuk6LWWRHJ3ph9t HAclxBqF3du1gNP57nJOkiMWQHawYCufYTbfwiAFuhifyCiQ9l41RVS6uVU2XUg4 wM5W/4/nIyoVLrCP81OfNJl39/PfmOhuub4uOWomWop0eV/aqylMx+pw9OrWj5Rh K7I5Lw53WZsFIWCarRb0ktm+TrOXBcjQtF/OwUwzZAOrpIqdpJoWG8LRWabuGHYS X6s6My583NsXuBDIRogV14cE5bnVtsXmUNjbEykuYCdm4mygXYsQVRTs9hK3HMCP gJoxVVzUrBfWXzXFtMWbdJkiwzPWwlvbfc8EuhuIqMdBTzA6p6IVpalEwf/Y9eZq mbBMLG9VH+VdMWI1XFhawaA7L9d1c6oVEPsQzX7TNm2OaYp32RneXljnQxFX6T4i 56Uiq4x8Wggav1qtHtxh =FHw8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i0LFOk513GRb+T2w--