[Nico Meijer]

Hi all,

>>Unless this EPIA architecture is a clone of the i386 or 
>>Alpha, I don't see it working on FreeBSD.  In fact, I don't even see it 
>>on NetBSD's site (http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/).

Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
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FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p7 #1: Thu Sep 18 20:14:22 CEST 2003
     root at localhost.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (599.71-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = "CentaurHauls"  Id = 0x673  Stepping = 3
   Features=0x803035<FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX>

'Plain' i686. ;-)

> There was an article posted recently where someone had FreeBSD
> running on their EPIA M10000.  

The above is an EPIA M6000; ie. a 600Mhz Eden CPU (fanless). The 
graphics card seems to be currently unsupported, so running a local 
desktop on it won't give.

I'm currently running fluxbox with Mozilla 1.4, which performs *very* 
decently, considering a 'mere' 600Mhz and the fact people say the CPU 
underperforms.

A make world takes somewhat less than two hours when not building games, 
sendmail and isdn.

I'm very happy with it so far. Rock solid, pretty fast and quiet. You 
can put this in your closet and not worry about it.

Bye... Nico