On 12/30/12, mxb <m...@alumni.chalmers.se> wrote: > Any practical usage for this kind of hardware?
What do you mean by practical in this context? > I don't see it. Maybe someone can explain it to me? See examples at http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/10-raspberry-pi-creations-that-show-how-amazing-the-tiny-pc-can-be/ and http://pingbin.com/2012/12/30-cool-ideas-raspberry-pi-project/. Btw, is anyone working on porting OpenBSD on http://openpandora.org/ ? -ht > 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.
