On 2016-05-28, Carson Chittom <[email protected]> wrote: > Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 2016-05-27, Marko Cupać <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have just noticed that pcengines has alix models with VGA ports: >>> >>> http://www.pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm >>> http://www.pcengines.ch/alix1e.htm >>> >>> Anyone tried OpenBSD on them? >> >> Yep. It worked, including X - I used one with autologin to a browser to >> display a job schedule on a wallscreen. This was some years ago though, >> I wouldn't buy one for that job now. > > OK, I'll bite: what *would* you buy for that job now?
Depends. And caveat: for that particular job I wouldn't care about accelerated X and would be willing to use the framebuffer. If I was buying just one and wanted higher chances of it working I'd probably look at a broadwell NUC, but they're expensive. If it was something where I could afford to buy one to try with a higher risk of it not working I'd probably get some braswell box (NUC, asrock beebox, etc) to play with as they're a lot cheaper, and offer it to a developer working in that area if it didn't work out at all. Last time I needed a bunch of machines for a somewhat similar task I *did* need accelerated X, didn't quite negotiate the minefield of graphics chip models and started with a N2830 NUC which wasn't accelerated. Then switched to Haswell NUCs which are working nicely, but they were just going EoL and we only just managed to scrape together enough stock from among a couple of distributors for the deployment ;) BTW I just tried booting that Bay Trail N2830 and it's now working nicely in -current.
