Hello! > but i am not sure it is the best chioce to build on. As an operating > system my first choice would OpenBSD and second is Linux. In fact at the > moment i run such a kind of setup using Linux but i feel need to upgrade > my hardware, i have old 700 MHz Celeron, 19" monitor (1024x768) and > 100MBit/s network.
If that's not too expensive for you, you could consider an Apple Mac mini. One of mine is even in a datacenter far away as a server, of course running OpenBSD, without any particular problems. They are fast, have good network, are very quiet (usually you can't hear them except with a disc in the DVD drive), and to use them as a workstation with a large monitor shouldn't be a problem either (mine are running headless though, so I've no experience with that). Tas.
