Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-19 Thread John Almberg
On Jun 18, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Charlie Kester wrote: On Thu 18 Jun 2009 at 14:18:21 PDT Tim Judd wrote: I've read reports (and forgotten it's source since then) that some Intel Atom processors work well, some don't with FreeBSD. This was something I read within a couple months, so I would see

Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-19 Thread George Hartzell
John Almberg writes: I have a client who has an application that he wants to deploy in his customer's offices as a headless 'appliance'. Basically, just a black box that you can plug into a Lan, turn it on, and it runs. No floppy disk or CD, no monitor/keyboard, just remotely

Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-19 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 19 Jun 2009 at 07:24:58 PDT John Almberg wrote: Sounds good. They are so inexpensive, I will just give it a whirl and see if it cuts the mustard. Speed isn't really an issue, since it's going to be twiddling it's thumbs most of the time. Doesn't really matter if it takes 10 seconds

Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-19 Thread John Almberg
I have a couple of Via Artigo a2000 boxes, one running FreeBSD-STABLE (post 7.2) and the other running FreeNAS. Both work well. I've seen posts from one fellow who's tracking a bug with the vge interface under very heavy load, but both of mine stream music and do Time Machine backups via

Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-18 Thread John Almberg
I have a client who has an application that he wants to deploy in his customer's offices as a headless 'appliance'. Basically, just a black box that you can plug into a Lan, turn it on, and it runs. No floppy disk or CD, no monitor/keyboard, just remotely managed. This application won't

Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Judd
What kind of application? This is so we can gear a hardware that is powerful enough to power your application. Naming the application and/or website would be a good addition. On 6/18/09, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: I have a client who has an application that he wants to deploy in

Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
On 6/18/09, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: I have a client who has an application that he wants to deploy in his customer's offices as a headless 'appliance'. Basically, just a black box that you can plug into a Lan, turn it on, and it runs. No floppy disk or CD, no

Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/18/09, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: On Jun 18, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Tim Judd wrote: What kind of application? This is so we can gear a hardware that is powerful enough to power your application. Naming the application and/or website would be a good addition. It's main

Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Tim Judd wrote: On 6/18/09, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: On Jun 18, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Tim Judd wrote: What kind of application? This is so we can gear a hardware that is powerful enough to power your application. Naming the application and/or website would be a good

Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-18 Thread John Almberg
There was a discussion on this a few days ago. I happen to have one of these Atom based systems, a Shuttle X27D: CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz (1596.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x106c2 Stepping = 2

Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-18 Thread Gardner Bell
--- On Thu, 6/18/09, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: From: John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com Subject: Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance' To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 10:54 PM There was a discussion on this a few days ago. I happen to have one

Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-18 Thread Charlie Kester
On Thu 18 Jun 2009 at 14:18:21 PDT Tim Judd wrote: I've read reports (and forgotten it's source since then) that some Intel Atom processors work well, some don't with FreeBSD. This was something I read within a couple months, so I would see if anyone here can provide input on pros and cons on