Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-02-06 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > [..] > PS: I'm ready to change my opinion about Broadcom by 1800, for just a > couple of PDF uploads on their website... A stripped datasheet has been released: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/615 Direct dl: http://dmkenr5gtnd8f.

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-02-02 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:41:42 +0100, Lars wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi It's called viral marketing, PR, social crap whatever. Raspberry Pi foundation claims something about support for schools and blahblahblah, but in fact was created but one of engineers of Broadcom. It's

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-02-02 Thread Andres Perera
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Lars wrote: > Anon wrote: >> Obviously you don't live in a 3rd world country. I do and nothing is 50 >> bucks here except the women. Nobody throws anything out except dead cats >> and PCs cost about 350 USD for a new build based on 3-5 year old NOS parts >> the Amer

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-02-02 Thread Lars
Anon wrote: > Obviously you don't live in a 3rd world country. I do and nothing is 50 > bucks here except the women. Nobody throws anything out except dead cats > and PCs cost about 350 USD for a new build based on 3-5 year old NOS parts > the Americans dumped on the market after they went obsolete

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-02-02 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
> What's so funny is that they put GNU/Linux on it, when gNU is supposed to > be about FREE dom. LOL. Fucking LOL. That's perfect. GNU has nothing to do with free, it has to do with butt fucking people until they become ASSimilated. Sounds like a match. > For poor people in third world countries

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-02-02 Thread Christiano F. Haesbaert
These days we have cheap good low power intels. The pentium core g620t for instance idles at less than 25w. If you want to go cheaper, amd brazos is nice too but not so power effective. On Feb 2, 2012 1:02 AM, "Lars" wrote: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi > > > > It's called viral

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-02-01 Thread Aaron Mason
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:05 AM, corey clingo wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote: >> if you feel this is a tired and worn-out question, then please just move > along. >> >> two systems on which i'm happily running openbsd on are: >> alix and mac mini. alix for firewalls

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-02-01 Thread Lars
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi > > It's called viral marketing, PR, social crap whatever. Raspberry Pi > foundation claims something about support for schools and > blahblahblah, but in fact was created but one of engineers of > Broadcom. It's just test bed for their proprietary crap

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-01-31 Thread Henning Brauer
* corey clingo [2012-01-31 04:08]: > If you don't need the environmental exclusion case, I recall reading > some good reviews of reasonably-priced Supermicro Atom-based systems > on this list - low power but they seem to look and feel like real > servers (even have IPMI and such). correct. > Sti

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-01-30 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Lars wrote: > If someone is considering doing openbsd ports for raspberry pi devices, > they might want to look at freebsd as a starting point, instead of linux. > > But it doesn't look that great, lots of undocumented crap with pi: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pip

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-01-30 Thread Lars
If someone is considering doing openbsd ports for raspberry pi devices, they might want to look at freebsd as a starting point, instead of linux. But it doesn't look that great, lots of undocumented crap with pi: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-November/036754.html I don'

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-01-30 Thread corey clingo
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Dewey Hylton wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "corey clingo" >> To: misc@openbsd.org >> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 7:05:17 PM >> Subject: Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise. >>

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-01-30 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 08:24:49AM -0500, Dewey Hylton wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Theo de Raadt" > > To: "Dewey Hylton" > > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 6:32:21 PM > > Subject: Re: l

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-01-30 Thread Dewey Hylton
- Original Message - > From: "corey clingo" > To: misc@openbsd.org > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 7:05:17 PM > Subject: Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise. > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Dewey Hylton > wrote: > > if

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-01-30 Thread Dewey Hylton
- Original Message - > From: "Theo de Raadt" > To: "Dewey Hylton" > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 6:32:21 PM > Subject: Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise. > > > i'm hoping the raspberryp

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-01-29 Thread corey clingo
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote: > if you feel this is a tired and worn-out question, then please just move along. > > two systems on which i'm happily running openbsd on are: > alix and mac mini. alix for firewalls/thin clients, and the mac mini can handle pretty much anything

Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-01-29 Thread Theo de Raadt
> i'm hoping the raspberrypi will eventually be supported on openbsd > (if the hardware proves to be stable, $35 sounds GREAT) but i don't > have the skills to go there myself. Wow. Dream on. It is a mess of firmware. You know nothing of our history?

looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.

2012-01-29 Thread Dewey Hylton
if you feel this is a tired and worn-out question, then please just move along. two systems on which i'm happily running openbsd on are: alix and mac mini. alix for firewalls/thin clients, and the mac mini can handle pretty much anything i throw at it. both are relatively cheap (new alix and us