Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:08:36 +0200 From: Michael <michipili@gmail.com> To: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Soekris for a Trac server Message-ID: <524D9684.6060905@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1380656055.18443.YahooMailNeo@web165001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <524A6A26.30903@gmail.com> <1380656055.18443.YahooMailNeo@web165001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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Hello Bill, thank you for your answer! Bill Tillman wrote: > The way technology has moved on these days I would approach this from a > completely different manner. Soekris makes some cool little boxes, but the > last time I looked they still had I486 cpu's...today may be different, probably > is. My point is that with computers so cheap these days why not just use > a box, sans the drives and do a diskless boot from one of your FreeBSD > servers...or better yet, setup another FreeBSD server using VM. It doesn't > make sense to buy a box with VM technology so freely available. Of course you are right that virtualisation is the cheapest way to go. But this my actual setup and I am considering moving it to a physical support because for my uses, I value some of its features (low-noise™ or take-away™). Best regards, Michael
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