OpenBSD should have no problems with this board


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I'm looking at getting this motherboard/processor for a BSD server. (BSD as recommended by this forum).

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...MBM-KT400D-2600

its a Soyo Dragon Ultra KT400 and an AMD Athlon XP 2600+

I've personally setup Linux on a Soyo Dragon Plus KT333 with AMD Athlon XP 2400+ and the only problems i had are sound problems, which we won't be using on the BSD server.

The reason I ask, however, is I've heard that hardware compatability on OpenBSD isn't as good as where Linux is at, and I want to make sure I can make and optimized BSD kernel for the above hardware.

I'm planning on also getting an ATI 9200se AGP video card for the board. I'm not planning to run X on it, just command line..so i don't think this could be an issue.

The harddrives are going to be 2x120GB Seagate (8MB Cache). I don't see a problem there, as long as the motherboard's IDE interface can pick up on them.

The server will be used for:

MySQL/PHP/Apache Server

Samba mount points (for automated backup of our windows xp machines using a crontab entry)

Email Server

Anonymous FTP Server

anyways,

A penny for your thoughts.

Thanks!

-Nic

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for the x86 architecture openbsd is compiled for i386 (for maximum compatibility) though 3.5 which ships on may 1 is going to support amd64 processors (woot woot!) including the W^X bits so for added resistance to buffer overflows etc.

If you're looking to optimize for an athlon you're going to be building from source.

here's the list of supported hardware:

http://openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware

If you can get it to boot, then you can make it run. If you're not going to be using any of the integrated sound/video/lan stuff then you shouldn't have a problem.

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right arm.

learning to compile a new kernel is fuuuunnnnn.....

Yeah, I'll probably go with a PCI ethernet card as I haven't been very sucessful with onboard ones.

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