On 2011-02-14 04.30, Nick Holland wrote:
>> there's much hype around about these plugcomputers which are going to spread
>> in the market.
> I've heard that. many years ago, actually.
> (heh. Wikipedia says "plug computers" are only a couple years old.
> That's not my memory. Not worth me looking closer at this)
> These will probably beat the flying car and controlled Fusion power
> sources to serious market penetration, but...
>> Here are some interesting models:
> ...
> Before getting excited about these, go look at what has happened to
> other stuff like this.
> Usual process goes somewhere along the line of:
> Developer spends a lot of time getting the OpenBSD toolchain ready for a
> new platform, and fighting with the vendor of these "Open-source
> friendly" (which should be read as "Linux...and only THEIR
> implementation") systems to get full (and accurate) documentation on the
> hardware.
> About the time the system is ready to be introduced as a mainstream
> platform, several of the following happens:
[Lots of good reasons to be wary snipped.]
+1 on that depressing but far too accurate description.
+1 from my dog, too.
> (I'm also having difficulty figuring out what to do with a wall-wart
> format computer. uh... I HATE wall warts! Do we REALLY want to run
> more wires to the wall wart? I actually kinda like the "NAS box" format
> systems -- a lot more practical for my uses, but which all suffered the
> above problems, too)
Speaking of... I've been searching a while for an OEM supplier for
something like the Alix boards, that can provide 4+ LAN ports but,
unlike the Alixes, also comes with at least two SATA ports for local
storage. (And of course, that runs OpenBSD.)
Unfortunately I've come up short so far, does anyone at misc@ know of a
supplier that might carry what I'm seeking? (And sorry for the thread
hijack!)
Thanks,
/Benny
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