From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 3 16:08:41 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F69F3F for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 16:08:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michipili@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-x22e.google.com (mail-ee0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4013:c00::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D52D92E39 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 16:08:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f46.google.com with SMTP id c13so1220671eek.33 for ; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:08:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3rB5ERjejg9msxt+tKluI38gVzJZlHFcNpGW5CpXbZY=; b=q+mJu8Tl6axm0h5mCI7zZOc289Tp598MZxNwXQ+QBRLzjclPC8/VRKQWOGTAkV6x1y pJKwlVHTkZpwEa1+FZ1797pGn4eVqMiJgaOjfyElQkOQFwXwNh4Jg8cSOR1qfeoyPM7m pmzUNMK4e6oLdBmX1N8P1HiNIhLMIo4zCeThlxd1pe6D/dVVLBu+Z7ebJJJEkmHcPqmB +++apb84dZp5TafODua5gTIhjFKPo46UWKXCHL4+lfoVnhyINfdB8A8P55DhAnbaWP3Y Gj/3mjiUuvYqzm8EswV9XxL92EgtSZNDQyW8ooIcm+T3hwTUBgN3XIne5I65KM1vSU+e iD9Q== X-Received: by 10.14.183.130 with SMTP id q2mr13870389eem.5.1380816519286; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:08:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from llea.celt.neu (xdsl-89-0-78-230.netcologne.de. [89.0.78.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id z12sm17351912eev.6.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <524D9684.6060905@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:08:36 +0200 From: Michael User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 SeaMonkey/2.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Tillman , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Soekris for a Trac server References: <524A6A26.30903@gmail.com> <1380656055.18443.YahooMailNeo@web165001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1380656055.18443.YahooMailNeo@web165001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:08:41 -0000 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