I am curious, what is the advantage of this over Raspberry PI 4, which seems to be the SBC of choice these days?
Mark Allyn On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 2:00 PM Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Just to chime in, I ordered a apu2c4 -- now superseded by newer 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_______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
