On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Russell Senior wrote:
Hi folks,Over at Personal Telco Project, we have every few years done a group order from pcengines.ch (the ch stands for Switzerland). Pcengines is a one-person design shop that develops and sells single-board computers, initially a thing called the WRAP board, then the Alix and these days the APU. They are designed to be routers with optional miniPCI or miniPCIe interfaces for radios. The prices are good, but the shipping has historically been around $40 per order, which is why we've done group orders, to reduce the sting of the shipping charges. It looks like the last group order I did was in 2016.
Just to chime in, I ordered a apu2c4 -- now superseded by newer models, but largely the same hardware -- in 2016. I run FreeBSD on it and it's a champ.
The initial bootstrapping was a bit of a pain, but since then it just runs, completely silently, performing some backup functions and occasionally serving as my network-test host.
No one will confuse it with a high-powered workstation, but it's a great little "set it and forget it" device.
-- Paul Heinlein [email protected] 45°38' N, 122°6' W
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