Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:14:17 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance' Message-ID: <ade45ae90906181314p55b6e7a1wd9047bc3e5926209@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <94A1EEFE-A341-41C8-A63E-4F9EC1C75670@identry.com> References: <94A1EEFE-A341-41C8-A63E-4F9EC1C75670@identry.com>
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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 <jalmberg@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 monitor/keyboard, just remotely managed. > > This application won't store any critical data, so it doesn't need > redundancy. It just needs to be reasonably reliable, compact, and quiet. > > My first recommendation was to use a Mac Mini, but that excellent bit > of hardware was deemed 'not professional enough'. So now I am looking > for a compact pc that can run FreeBSD, of course. I think it probably > just needs a power supply, tiny motherboard with onboard ethernet, > usb, etc., and hard drive. > > If anyone has a recommendation (or if their are any vendors lurking), > please shoot me an email off list. I'll compile a list of > recommendations and post it all at once, in case anyone else is > interested in this. > > Thanks: John -- jalmberg at identry dot com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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