On 05.03.2025 11:26, sylv...@saboua.me wrote:
I'm thinking of purchasing parts to an all-purpose *BSD personal computer. My budget is ~€3000 (+1k). Ideally I would like it not too noisy while staying as cool as possible (I live in a studio), and dual screen monitor (I'm thinking of one HD screen to also watch movies on and one square screen on the left for the console).
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That's it. Any advice/feedback fom what you guys use ? I dream of those towers with just one big fan on the right. Ideally, the whole thing would not consume much. It also needs not to be one of those huge gamer towers while still fairly powerful.
Here's your shopping list. You need: - A computer. Something not too modern would be great. You won't get the latest and greatest Radeon to work on the BSDs, and there could be issues with the latest gen Intel or AMD CPUs as well. - A GPU that's not nvidia. My Radeon 6800 XT works great on OpenBSD, but good luck getting it to work on NetBSD for example. Like before, something not too modern and not nvidia. - Some disks. If you use UEFI, you can install all the BSDs on seperate disks and use your motherboard's UEFI boot manager or something like reFind to boot between OSes. You can even throw a Linux in there for flavor. No need to mess with bootloader-based multiboot nowadays. Oh, and SSDs are better than spinning rust. - Memory. The more the better. As for type, whatever works. The rest is all personal taste. Or.. whatever you can thrift. OpenBSD really isn't that demanding, it depends on what you want to do with it. Cheers, Emiel
