A bit of an obscure Q....
The
FreeBSD compatibility site doesn't answer it.
We currently run a low-load FreeBSD web/email server, with a backup at another site, using some ancient PCs. The plan is to move these to modern low power SSD-based boxes.
This is the
box we are looking at and this is the
motherboard. The MB spec is
here.
This stuff is all "IBM compatible" so it "should just work"
but e.g.
this suggests there may be issues. OTOH that last link is the I7 CPU whereas the MB in question is an I5. But not even booting up is obviously a big problem. They also couldn't get a USB mouse to work.... There is very little online data on people running FreeBSD on modern hardware.
I wonder if anyone here has any experience, or can suggest another good quality no-moving-parts box which is known to run FreeBSD?
For example,
this is another but rather lower spec box we looked at, which we can't be sure if it will do what is needed (we are running some PHP/HTTPS stuff) but the company is totally nonresponsive to emails or phone calls.