suggestions for hardware to show off NetBSD?

[Kevin Lahey]

The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is coming up this month
(Feburary 21 & 22), and I'm going to be staffing a booth there with
David Maxwell, who's managed to make it down for the show.  I've
typically brought out some Cobalt Qubes and Raqs to show the kinds of
interesting old hardware we run on, along with my T61 to show that we
run on newer hardware.

I'd love to have some other hardware to demo.  In the past, I've
managed to get the NetBSD Toaster from Jesse Off, but I'm somewhat
reluctant to keep on bugging him for it.  Do folks have favorite (low
cost) hardware to show off NetBSD?  I wouldn't mind buying something
cool cheap (new or used) that I could put NetBSD for a demo, but I'm
not really interested in investing in particularly expensive stuff.

I realize that there isn't a TNF stash of booth stuff (well, I have a
large printed sign and some t-shirts that was sent to me, so maybe I
have the stash at the moment).  Maybe we could create one?

Thanks,

Kevin
kml@...

[Jan Schaumann]

Kevin Lahey <kml@...> wrote:
 
> I'd love to have some other hardware to demo.  In the past, I've
> managed to get the NetBSD Toaster from Jesse Off, but I'm somewhat
> reluctant to keep on bugging him for it.

It'd still be nice to have the toaster there.  It still is a big crowd
pleaser and attracts attention.

> Do folks have favorite (low cost) hardware to show off NetBSD?

A Mac Mini might be an easy to bring piece of hardware, should anybody
near you have one.

-Jan

[Herb Peyerl]

A gumstix would also be cool if someone had one

Sssbnt from by iPod

On Feb 1, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Jan Schaumann <jschauma@...>  
wrote:

> Kevin Lahey <kml@...> wrote:
>
>> I'd love to have some other hardware to demo.  In the past, I've
>> managed to get the NetBSD Toaster from Jesse Off, but I'm somewhat
>> reluctant to keep on bugging him for it.
>
> It'd still be nice to have the toaster there.  It still is a big crowd
> pleaser and attracts attention.
>
>> Do folks have favorite (low cost) hardware to show off NetBSD?
>
> A Mac Mini might be an easy to bring piece of hardware, should anybody
> near you have one.
>
> -Jan

[Andy Ruhl]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Kevin Lahey <kml@...> wrote:
> reluctant to keep on bugging him for it.  Do folks have favorite (low
> cost) hardware to show off NetBSD?  I wouldn't mind buying something

Watching a Cobalt Qube2 install netbsd from the restore CD over the
network is pretty cool. You can get Qube2s pretty cheap now if you can
find them. Stick a laptop drive in there, unplug the fan and you have
a quiet, relatively low power consumption server.

Andy

[Matt Olander-2]

On Feb 1, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Kevin Lahey wrote:

> The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is coming up this month
> (Feburary 21 & 22), and I'm going to be staffing a booth there with
> David Maxwell, who's managed to make it down for the show.  I've
> typically brought out some Cobalt Qubes and Raqs to show the kinds of
> interesting old hardware we run on, along with my T61 to show that we
> run on newer hardware.
>
> I'd love to have some other hardware to demo.  In the past, I've
> managed to get the NetBSD Toaster from Jesse Off, but I'm somewhat
> reluctant to keep on bugging him for it.  Do folks have favorite (low
> cost) hardware to show off NetBSD?  I wouldn't mind buying something
> cool cheap (new or used) that I could put NetBSD for a demo, but I'm
> not really interested in investing in particularly expensive stuff.
>
> I realize that there isn't a TNF stash of booth stuff (well, I have a
> large printed sign and some t-shirts that was sent to me, so maybe I
> have the stash at the moment).  Maybe we could create one?

I can bring my older mac mini, keyboard, mouse and a 15" LCD for you  
guys to install on, if you'd like. Let me know, I'd love to take it  
home afterwards and find out what this NetBSD stuff is all bout ;-P

-matt

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[Aaron J. Grier-2]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 06:49:05PM -0700, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> A gumstix would also be cool if someone had one

I don't think there is any gumstix overo support yet, and verdex support
was only recently checked-in.  I could be mistaken?

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