Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-15 Thread Sevan / Venture37
On 15 Feb 2011, at 04:42 PM, Benny Lofgren wrote: > 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 O

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-15 Thread Glen Anderson
On 15 February 2011 13:12, Benny Lofgren wrote: > 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 Open

Re: [OT] OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-15 Thread Victor Camacho
On 2/15/2011 12:31 AM, Sean Kamath wrote: On Feb 14, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Ron McDowell wrote: Or just get an Alix board http://www.pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm [available stateside from netgate.com] for projects like this. AMD Geode CPU, common VGA/USB keyboard input, i386 versions of most OSes work,

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-15 Thread Benny Lofgren
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 lookin

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-15 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Yep, indeed... they advised to use gigabit ports as only 10/100 really a master fix :D http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/news.aspx?showarticle=4 Fun to know that 1st gen product is better than the following (unfortunately often happens for several other junk...) On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-15 Thread Comete
Hello, i have a Sheevaplug (first generation) since more than one year now. I use it as web server, ssh, torrent web client and XMPP server without overheating any problem. It works nicely with a SD card for the system (debian...) and an usbdisk for the data. I also would like to use OpenBSD

Re: [OT] OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-14 Thread Sean Kamath
On Feb 14, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Ron McDowell wrote: > Or just get an Alix board http://www.pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm [available stateside from netgate.com] for projects like this. AMD Geode CPU, common VGA/USB keyboard input, i386 versions of most OSes work, I have 4.7 i386 running on one with a coupl

Re: [OT] OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-14 Thread Ron McDowell
ropers wrote: This is pretty OT, but I saw that OpenBSD does support some USB graphics adapters -- cf. udl(4) . So IFF any of these plug computers got to run OpenBSD, then one could jack a USB hub into that plug computer, connect a USB keyboard a

[OT] OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-14 Thread ropers
This is pretty OT, but I saw that OpenBSD does support some USB graphics adapters -- cf. udl(4) . So IFF any of these plug computers got to run OpenBSD, then one could jack a USB hub into that plug computer, connect a USB keyboard and mouse, and co

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-14 Thread Bryan
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 14:04, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > Hi all, > > there's much hype around about these plugcomputers which are going to spread > in the market. I am glad you asked this question... I had seen these coming out as well, with ARM architectures, and was wondering about running ou

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/13/2011 10:30 PM, Nick Holland wrote: [bla bla bla, Nick doesn't think plug computers are going anywhere] I should probably make it clear: those were MY opinions, not any kind of official OpenBSD policy statement. All it takes is a developer (or someone else) to say, "I want this device

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-14 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Thank you all for the answers! I also had doubts about the overheating stuff (did also some reading through complaints) but the failing power supply also looks like a major show-stopper. Actually I was thinking about such boxes just as a comfortable 5W NAS/torrent server (activities which do not t

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/13/11 15:04, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > Hi all, > > 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

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-13 Thread Josh Smith
On Sunday, February 13, 2011, roberth wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:04:33 +0100 > Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > >> Has anyone had experiences about installing OpenBSD on similar >> devices? With which results? > > No. > Why? > The hardware is crap. > The idea itself is ok, but the execution is not u

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-13 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Know a person who brought a guru or sheeva plug, i forgot which one. He had power supply issues... On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:19 PM, roberth wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:04:33 +0100 > Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > >> Has anyone had experiences about installing OpenBSD on similar >> devices? With wh

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-13 Thread roberth
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:04:33 +0100 Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > Has anyone had experiences about installing OpenBSD on similar > devices? With which results? No. Why? The hardware is crap. The idea itself is ok, but the execution is not up to expectations. Overheating, breaking the hw, mostly relate

OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-13 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi all, there's much hype around about these plugcomputers which are going to spread in the market. Here are some interesting models: http://www.ionicsplug.com/cirrus.html http://www.tonidoplug.com/ http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-41-dreamplug-devkit.aspx http://www.globalscaletechnologi