Any practical usage for this kind of hardware? I don't see it. Maybe someone can explain it to me?
Sure, probably fun to port an OS other than GNU/Linux, but what kind of duties OpenBSD ev. will do on it? //mxb On 30 dec 2012, at 23:00, Anders Arnholm <and...@arnholm.se> wrote: > Johan Beisser skrev 2012-12-30 20:49: >> On Dec 30, 2012, at 8:31, pe...@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) wrote: >> >>> A case in point: one of the firewalls I maintain for old friends is a >>> Pentium III box with a whopping 512 MB of RAM, 8GB hard drive, you get >>> the idea. As in, seriously, you'll get better hardware for free or the >>> price of a bus ticket. >> 486DX2, 64mb of ram, 1gb of disk. >> >> It's my firewall at home. Has been reliably pushing packets since 2000. >> > I wouldn't say that better hardware thou, the pi have it's advantages > over many dated hardware, specially in power consumption. When it comes > to nice embedded hardware development platforms few is as easy and cheep > to get your hands on. > > The down side with pie as firewalls is only one network card. I say it > easy to work with compared to many alternatives.
