Hi, On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Nate Dobbs <misconfigurat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <g...@freebsd.org> > 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 <g...@freebsd.org> >> > 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 >> >>> <misconfigurat...@gmail.com> 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 Please read what I said correctly, I said "this ARM11 is obsolete" 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 g...@freebsd.org 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. > you certainly want:
http://beagleboard.org/bone $89, 700MHz Cortex A8, 256MB DRR2, micro-SD. However, do not expect being able to run FreeBSD on it before a few years :) - Arnaud > JMHO > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Nate Dobbs RHCE > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
