On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 21:05:54 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 11:33:25 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Nate Dobbs < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>>> 10 year old core or not, the ARM is the worlds most widely used > processor; > >>>> > >>> Please read what I said correctly, I said "this ARM11 is obsolete" > >>> (even if still used, for sure) ... > >> > >> Clearly price is an issue for this device. What's so bad about ARM11 > >> that it shouldn't be used? > >> > > If you read my original comment, I did point out the $25 price tag was > > pretty much the only interesting thing. Now, what it has been designed > > for, multimedia, is going to be handled by a closed-source binary blob > > without datasheet, so let me turn back the question: what do you > > expect doing with it ? > > That's not turning back the question; that's a separate question. But > it's a good one. I don't really see it as a multimedia device. My > interest would be in little embedded agents in different parts of the > house, for things like measuring temperatures. I'm sure lots of other > applications will come to mind. > > And yes, I'll probably use the supplied Linux port. But if a FreeBSD > alternative becomes available, I'd certainly prefer that. > > Greg > -- > Sent from my desktop computer > Finger [email protected] for PGP public key. > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports > problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua > I agree with groggy, something I'd personally use it for is a small SSH server to allow a pinhole into my home network. It would serve as a very good replacement for the mac mini that's sitting in my DMZ simply handling connections for my SSH tunnel so I can bypass the proxy at work. Power savings would be significant and it would be plenty powerful to handle this task. A small webcam server comes to mind as well; there could be plenty of useful things I could think of outside the realm of multimedia. JMHO -- Cheers, Nate Dobbs RHCE _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
