Re: Building a low-power FreeBSD media server

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:11:50 UTC, noone@xxxxxxxxxxx (Speechless) wrote:

For FreeBSD, unless you are absolutely certain that it will run out of
the box on the hardware you select, or are willing and able to do the
programming it takes to make it run, you would be wise select hardware
from the more mainstream manufacturers:

Motherboard: ASUS/Intel/Gigabyte
CPU: AMD/Intel

I've had problems running FreeBSD on hardware made by manufacturers
not memtioned above. Obviously, things change and your mileage may
vary.

As a data point: I'm running a diskless firewall on a VIA EK (Mini-ITX)
board, and a file server on another EK board. I also tested with no
problems on an ML board. All FreeBSD 6.2.

--
Bob Eager
UNIX since v6..
http://tinyurl.com/2xqr6h

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