Re: PCEngines alternatives

On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 08:33:46 -0400, mike tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:

> I love these boards a lot, but it looks like availability is going to
> be really tight for some time. Does anyone have any suggestions for
> alternatives? ARM seems to be looking better and better, however, I
> need something with more than one built in ethernet port (3-4 ideally)
> and something with zero fans as the environments tend to be very
> dirty -- hence off the shelf Pi4 is not that attractive.
> 

One alternative I know about is pine64.org's ROCKPro64. While it has
just one built-in ethernet port, there is PCIe 4x slot available. I
tested the board itself, it works with FreeBSD out-of-the-box, but I
did not test it with PCIe network card. 2 GB version is available, 4 GB
currently out of stock, but should be in stock late August.

Another alternative is Quartz64 from the same vendor, with both 4 GB
and 8 GB version available as of now, unfortunately, with different
SoC, it is not yet supported, but development is ongoing according to
post on freebsd-arm mailing list. If you are interested in this
platform, you can ask there as well, it is possible to get more
responses...

A bit more info would be usefull - price desired, peripherals wanted,
usage scenario etc. Two board mentioned are both under US$ 100, but
should be usable for many tasks.

Regards,
Milan