From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 8 15:37:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2483A106566B for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 15:37:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F918FC0C for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 15:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.22]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 08 May 2010 11:37:10 -0400 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.10.8-GA) with ESMTP id QSF07642; Sat, 8 May 2010 11:36:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 209-6-91-204.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.91.204]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 08 May 2010 11:36:51 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19429.34067.32569.403724@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 11:36:51 -0400 To: Andrew Gould In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Liontaur Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 15:37:12 -0000 Andrew Gould writes: > >> Sounds like you want a netbook. > > > > I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or > > mouse. I want to put it in a cupboard and not worry about it. With > > a netbook i'd probably have to leave it open (or else it would go > > into suspend mode or heat up or...). I was just hoping for something > > Soekris size but with a VGA output. > > Have you taken a look at the fit-PC2? Since it can run Linux, the > odds are it can run FreeBSD as well. You might want to ask the > creators. > > http://www.fit-pc.com/web/ I seem to have lost the bookmark, but within the last 18 months or so I saw an article for something that might work here. It ran Linux, so hopefully it would run *BSD. It had a 1 ghz processor, and 512 mbytes of RAM. The package was a a cube. 2"x2"x2". That's correct, inches. One face has a power plug; another had a USB connector; a third has a (100 mbit) ethernet connector. The price was (I think) under US $150. Robert Huff