On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 08:49, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.rito...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2) low power reading of 39 watts.
For what it's worth, 39 watts is not really what I'd call low power.
I am using a PC Engines apu1d4, which has a small dual core AMD CPU;
it taps out at something like 10W, maybe 15W absolute maximum, and
generally lower when idle. It also does not require a fan. It makes
a good Internet and VPN gateway, even though our ipfilter is at this
point a bit dated with respect to the features it supports.
> 3) I have a lot of prized Sun machines and affection for the physical
> artifacts of that page in computer history (and a peculiar and perhaps
> foolish pride in their ability to endure).
We still technically have SPARC support today, but it will languish
and ultimately be removed if maintainers don't show up to look after
it. If you're interested in running current illumos software, I'd
encourage you to get involved!
> 4) tragically, there seems to be no Illumos or even Solaris for ARM /
> Raspberry Pi yet. And some flavour of SunOS is one of the goals here.
There is a personal fork that has apparent support for some ARM systems:
https://github.com/n-hys/illumos-gate
The original author has, I believe, declined to do the work to get
them integrated into illumos -- but literally anybody else who is
interested can step in and do so on their behalf! We're a small
community, and a lot of the time people have a specific problem
they're already working on which is absorbing most of their time. If
you, yourself, want to work on upstreaming the ARM support, we have a
contribution guide and I imagine there are folks who would be able to
assist in IRC or on the mailing list as you're moving along.
> So basically my hope is to ascertain whether the ipfilter in Illumos is up to
> the task of making a reasonably safe home router. This doesn’t have to be
> Fort Knox — I don’t have data in my home that’s tremendously interesting or
> sensitive unless you’re really into cat pictures.
As far as I can tell, it doesn't allow traffic through that it's not
supposed to allow! If that turns out to be wrong, it's a serious
security issue and we'll definitely fix it.
Cheers.
--
Joshua M. Clulow
http://blog.sysmgr.org
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