Another successful OpenBSD setup

Oliver Lowe@hachyderm.io to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 335 points –

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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While i agree, no one provides full source blobs for firmware and bios that i am aware of. Please correct me if I am wrong, however.

Open source bios yes, but you still have close source firmware blobs for amd/intel used on those systems. The only way to do this is to make 100% of the hardware.

Also please note, I am using coreboot already on my pcengines router.

Few computers use CoreBoot, and CoreBoot still uses proprietary blobs typically. Normally only libreboot has zero blobs, and they are very rare indeed.