OT: Lowest-power small server solutions

[Vassilis Prevelakis]

"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> As for not needing any kind of framebuffer, under OpenBSD I don't really
> need it with the HP Pentium III system I'm using.  Though it was a bit
> worrisome the other night when there was nothing on the console and
> it took forever to come up (it was fsck'ing the disk as the power had
> gone out).

why not use a serial console? OpenBSD supports this.

For accessing the serial consoles of my machines, I use conserver
(available on the ports collection) which has the benefits of (a) keeping
a log of everything that appears on the serial port (even if you are
not connected), (b) allows connections to the serial port over the
network, and (c) allows multiple r/o connections to the same serial port
(so you can monitor what's going on from many points).

**vp