Gregory, I'm a big fan / collector of non Wintel stuff and I run OpenBSD on it all. I can tell you that the 64-bit SPARC stuff seems to be the best fit for your use case in my experience. The downside is that a desktop (or heaven forbid laptop) solution hasn't really been manufactured for a while (please misc@ correct me if I'm wrong here).
The fastest desktop that I own is a SunBlade 2500 Silver (don't let the name throw you, it is a tower desktop machine). It has dual 1.6GHz processors and 8GB of RAM. I put two Sun XVR-100 video cards in it (the 100 and the 300 are about the best cards you can have with accelerated X support that I've found). It's pretty speedy and mostly useful. The only downside is web browser support. Since Firefox and Chromium aren't available for anything other than i386 and amd64 platforms, it's kind of hit and miss. If anyone on the list has a suggestion, I'd really appreciate it. This box is good enough to be my daily driver at work if I could solve that wrinkle. Thanks, Bryan On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Gregory Edigarov <ediga...@qarea.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > if I want to build a non-wintel system with commodity running OpenBSD > without problems, what are my options? > preferably something non-apple also, which i will be able to connect > display, mouse, and keyboard, and hopefully run X, etc. > > -- > With best regards, > Gregory Edigarov
