Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:13:34 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: cliftonr@lava.net Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ? Message-ID: <E1MFZba-000OCF-H8@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <20090613195451.GA15509@lava.net>
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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.
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