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Adam Turoff wrote:
> 
> Ken Hansen <khansen@njcc.com> writes:
> > Joe McGuckin wrote:
> > > if the install code had a www interface, so that I
> > > didn't need to scrounge up a keyboard & monitor in install freebsd.
> >
> > Is it REALLY that hard to come up with a keyboard & monitor?
> 
> For a regular box, no.  For a toaster, possibly.
> 
> There's an emerging market in rack mountable httpd/ftpd-toasters.
> I know of one vendor that hacked a NT to death so it doesn't
> use much in the way of resources and can boot an embedded
> system.
> 
> Since we're talking about a standard Intel box whittled down into
> an embedded system, I wouldn't mind using it if I knew it
> was something like PicoBSD inside.  :-)
> 
> Expecting any toaster to support a web interface so you can config it
> from any box on the network isn't asking too much these days.
> 
> (Now let's not pick nits about who's using a toaster and who
> has a keyboard and monitor port.)

for the cannonical FreeBSD toaster (even looks like one)
see www.whistle.com (plug plug)

> 
>  -- Adam.
> 
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