On 04/19/14 21:01, Martin Braun wrote: > Hi > > I know that there isn't going to be any support for the Rasberry-PI, > but I have been looking for something similar that runs OpenBSD > without any problems. > > I am mainly interested because of the low power consumption and > because I want to have this box running 24/7 with OpenBSD. > > I mainly need it for OpenSMTPD and Nginx stuff, so graphics isn't > important, but I also don't want to fiddle around with special cables > and stuff, ie. it should be relatively easy to install OpenBSD. > > I already have a couple of R-PI's running XBMC and I have a Cubox > running Debian. > > Any recommendations for a mini box that runs OpenBSD without problems? > > Kind regards.
http://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html I'm kinda fond of the BeagleBone Black boards. similar size to the Raspberry Pi boards. No USB support at this point. A bunch of people will yell "Soekris!". But then, they yell that for every question. ;) There is also Alix boards, which I've seen people sing the praises of. On the other hand, I recently built a three-port firewall system using an old P3-ish 700MHz Celeron desktop and a CF->IDE adapter -- measured power draw: 27W when idle. Yeah, a lot more power than a Beaglebone, but it was basically free, and a heck of a lot more powerful than any of the ARM systems we support. "free" is a big head-start when it comes to saving money on electricity. I've found a fair number of used "appliance" devices and "network terminals" which are basically just special purpose PCs. Again, not as low power as the ARM systems, but again, starting price of "near free" is hard to beat. Nick.
