On Thu, 07 Apr 2016 21:07:36 +0000 Ruslanas Gžibovskis <rusla...@lpic.lt> wrote:
>Thank you Stuart for your notice about list of arch that will sute my >needs. Main usage is just to meet openbsd, get used to it, possible >that I will set it up on my router-pc ;] for routing, fw, fileshare, >dlna server and torrent client. Also virtualization for learning/exam >preparation purposes... > >Thanks again John, cheap used laps sounds great too... will think >about it too. > >Thank you very much! > > >On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 23:56 Stuart Henderson, <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > >> On 2016/04/07 20:29, Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: >> > Thank you John. that answered my question 100%. >> > >> > Maybe someone could suggest some cheap and low heating, low power >> > consumption HW like RPI, which is quite woeld wide available? >> > >> > Cause i followed link: http://www.openbsd.org/plat.html it has >> > many >> (for me >> > unheard) HW, but it will take a time to read about each ot these... >> > >> > Thank you very much for tour reply >> >> If you want something where things generally all work already, it >> might be better to stick to one of the cheap and lower-power x86 >> devices that are available (various Atoms, AMD APU, etc.) >> >> Of the other architectures supported by OpenBSD, octeon and armv7 are >> the only ones which really fit your stated requirements (there is >> also landisk but it's very slow and not so easily available), but >> don't expect things to be as smooth on those arches. You don't >> mention what you want to use it for though - for some use-cases lack >> of video support might be a show-stopper. >> >> Ongoing work (FDT etc.) on armv7 should improve things there, >> but there are a number of challenges on the way to having really >> good support so it's really a developer platform rather than an >> normal-user platform at this point. >> >> -- > >Ruslanas Gžibovskis >+370 6030 7030 >RHCE: 130-192-255 Something else you might want to consider, since you'd now have to actually buy new hardware to run OpenBSD on as a learning experience, is to simply run it in a virtual machine. If, on your Desk/Laptop you use: * Linux, then try kvm or VirtualBox or vmware as the hypervisor * Mac, then try Parallels, or virtualbox, or vmware as the hypervisor, or * Windows, try VirtualBox or vmware as the hypervisor. kvm and virtualbox are free, so that's an advantage there. Good luck, -- Regards, Christopher
