> On Jul 17, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > > On 2015-07-17, BSD <b...@cpscoatings.net> wrote: > >> As a new user, I find myself in the same position as the OP: very >> interested in non-Intel products. But there seems to be a vacuum of >> information around this topic. > > You're 15 years too late. x86 has won.
I couldn’t have said it better. To my knowledge - the fastest non-x86 desktop type system that OpenBSD runs on in the PowerMac G5, it’s 10 years old, and a nicely specked can cost almost as much as a much faster x86 box. Things like the BeagleBones and Edge Routers are great for what they are - be it a router or embedded platform or simple web server, etc. - but the modern desktop environment and things like firefox are just to slow on anything non intel esp. w/o accelerate graphics. Just how it is. -bp @creepingfur ------------
