I use one of these (running OpenBSD) as a router. 100% uptime, excluding OS upgrades and power failures.
It’s fast enough to run small VMs, and is passively cooled.
PC Engines has a nice business model. They put out board revisions infrequently, but then sell them unchanged (other than errata) for decades. This lets OS vendors provide rock solid support over time, and also makes them appropriate for use cases where you want to be able to buy an identical replacement years from now.
As Moore’s Law ends, I hope more hardware vendors go this way.
Hopefully PC Engines will issue a new Ryzen based APU line sometime soon (since the article says these will be produced by AMD for 10 years).
(Edit: they support boards for about one decade. Not multiple decades)
It’s fast enough to run small VMs, and is passively cooled.
PC Engines has a nice business model. They put out board revisions infrequently, but then sell them unchanged (other than errata) for decades. This lets OS vendors provide rock solid support over time, and also makes them appropriate for use cases where you want to be able to buy an identical replacement years from now.
As Moore’s Law ends, I hope more hardware vendors go this way.
Hopefully PC Engines will issue a new Ryzen based APU line sometime soon (since the article says these will be produced by AMD for 10 years).
(Edit: they support boards for about one decade. Not multiple decades)