Computers for cross-platform development

Christoph Harder shadowomf at arcor.de
Sat Jun 1 05:34:04 PDT 2019


Did you consider buying used server for this?
I once was lucky to get 8 AMD Opteron boards, processors and a ton of memory for very little.
I wouldn't buy a new server for this unless you plan to run the systems 24/7 (energy cost), else you're much better of with used systems.

-Christoph

Am 24.05.2019 um 05:44 schrieb Pierre Abbat:
> I'm planning to get several small computers so that I can test my software on 
> several OSes. One will compile binaries for Windows; the others will run 
> OpenBSD, NetBSD, probably FreeBSD, and maybe DragonFly (I already have a 
> DragonFly box, but it's slow compared to my laptop). I'm looking at these:
> https://www.newegg.com/Barebone-Mini-Computers/Category/ID-3
> How can I make sure that all the hardware works on all the BSDs?
> 
> The reason I say "probably FreeBSD" is that another computer I'm going to get 
> is a Power9 box from Raptor for big-endian testing. I know of two OSes that 
> are big-endian on Power9: Adélie Linux and FreeBSD. However, while it is Tier 
> 1 on Adélie, it is Tier 2 on FreeBSD. So I may or may not set it up as dual-
> boot.
> 
> Pierre
> 
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