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Selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Another successful OpenBSD setup

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Another successful OpenBSD setup

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Oliver Lowe@hachyderm.io to

Selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Another successful OpenBSD setup

I’ve been buying these little boxes from AliExpress for years to use as firewalls and routers. My oldest one is almost 9 years old now! OpenBSD installs just fine. Just a BIOS tweak to always boot up after power is restored.

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As @floofloof@lemmy.ca stated:

The only concerns are that you don’t get BIOS updates, and you don’t know for sure that there’s nothing nasty in the firmware.

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