Re: Building a low-power FreeBSD media server

Bob Eager wrote:

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.


Likewise: I've got 6.2 running headless on a jetway j7f4 fanless 1.2GHz C7 mobo. Some minor issues with the onboard NICs and I admit it won't set any speed records :-) but it runs smoothly enough with 1Gb of memory as my lan gateway/firewall plus samba server/web server/web proxy/mail server/etc (and yes, I know that's a bad mixture of functions!).
.