If you can't get your hands on a Raspberry Pi anytime soon, this fellow has a 
VM Ware simulator over here.

http://rpi.descartes.co.uk/sim-emu/

I haven't tried it out personally yet.

- Pat


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Potts [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 1:32 PM
To: Steve Litt
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: raspberi pi

Due to the overhead that USB puts on the system, I have always avoided USB 
ethernet. I have seen some latency issues when using the USB bus for USB 
Ethernet and pushing data to a USB hard drive.
But then again, if you need dual NICs on a system, it's basically the only way 
to ago...

On the OS side: check out http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

They have "a reference root filesystem from Alex and Dom, based on the Raspbian 
optimised version of Debian, and containing LXDE, Midori, development tools and 
example source code for multimedia functions."

also an Arch Linux image and QtonPi...

Raspbian Sneak Peek: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1565

Kinda makes me think that even I could tackle this...


Michael Potts
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Steve Litt <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:58:44 -0400, Rafael Troncoso said:
> > A presentation about RPi will be great.
> > Yeah I got two of them too. With one of them I am just substituting 
> > my old big noisy warm server that runs CentOs. This server act as 
> > printer server, sftp, ssh and its goodies (tunneling, sock5 proxy) 
> > and a git repository.
>
> If any of you turns a RPi into a firewall, please let me know. I'd 
> love to swap out my mid-tower OpenBSD/pf firewall for some little 
> thirty watt thing. My firewall is on 24/365, so electricity counts, 
> especially because I live in the south and not only does my firewall 
> burn electricity, but then the air conditioner uses more electricity 
> getting rid of its heat.
>
> The problem I've had with stuff like Raspberry Pi is not enough 
> Ethernet ports to make a firewall. People tell me that USB Ethernet 
> adapters won't even carry the load of 100Mbit, let alone 1Gbit. I 
> spoze that's not a limitation on the Brighthouse side (10Mbit down, 
> 0.5Mbit up), but it's close.
>
> Also, I can't imagine how to get an OpenBSD image onto an SD card so 
> that the Raspberry Pi would boot it.
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
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