From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 13 20:13:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97832106570D for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:13:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from constantine.ticketswitch.com (constantine.ticketswitch.com [IPv6:2002:57e0:1d4e:1::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC178FC24 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:13:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from dilbert.rattatosk ([10.64.50.6] helo=dilbert.ticketswitch.com) by constantine.ticketswitch.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MFZba-0004OX-II; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:13:34 +0100 Received: from petefrench by dilbert.ticketswitch.com with local (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MFZba-000OCF-H8; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:13:34 +0100 To: cliftonr@lava.net In-Reply-To: <20090613195451.GA15509@lava.net> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:13:34 +0100 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:13:38 -0000 > 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.