On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:54:22 -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: >On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 22:09 -0400, Jim Fron wrote: >> What it does that an OBSD solution can't is be low power, cheap, and >> bought off the shelf (maybe there are off-the-shelf suppliers of OBSD >> machines, but they aren't in every strip mall in the country). > >To the third of those, I agree. To the first two of those, I offer as >counterexamples the rather famous Soekris Technologies hardware. Even a >loaded net4801 is relatively low power (1.5A at 12V). As for cheap, they >certainly aren't out of our budget as home users. > >-- >Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > And those Soekris 4801s are what I'm using - and defending vociferously! Here in Australia they ain't all <that> cheap due courier delivery using a carrier that charges (IIRC about $60AUD ) for paperwork that wouldn't even be needed if they came USPS.
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