On 1 March 2011 14:11, Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > Go grab yourself an old PII or P3 (Celeron will save you a couple > Watts), 64M RAM, a couple PCI NICs, an old HD, and do it. > > DO NOT jump on the > Alix/Soekris/Other-wacko-low-power-low-performing-specialty hardware > train until you know what you are doing. It is good to see that people > aren't automatically recommending Soekris for everything ("the answer is > Soekris. What's your question?") so much anymore... unfortunately, now > it's Alix. Stick to standard computers until you are really comfortable > with OpenBSD (or ANY OS you are planning on using).
Yeah, good point. If you aren't yet comfortable with serial consoles (and probably PXE booting) it will be easier to start with a regular, older computer with a CD drive. I think the ALIX boards are a good fit for this type of workload but they certainly bring additional challenges for newcomers. -- Joshua M. Clulow UNIX Admin/Developer http://blog.sysmgr.org
