Soekris Engineering, founded in 2001, is a manufacturer of small x86 motherboards and servers, popular with integrators of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux embedded systems.
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edithttp://soekris.com/ - Company site http://soekris.com/about.htm - About page http://wiki.soekris.info/Main_Page - Unofficial wiki http://phk.freebsd.dk/soekris/ - Noted FreeBSD developer Poul-Henning Kamp's documents on using FreeBSD on Soekris hardware http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html - OpenBSD hardware FAQs, including 2 items on running on Soekris hardware http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2001/07/27/0005.html - Jun 2001 article on NetBSD on Soekris http://roland.entierement.nu/pages/debian-on-soekris-howto.html - Debian Linux on Soekris HOWTO http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020809S0032 - EE Times article from 2002 mentioning Soekris use in embedded wifi
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Soekris Engineering, Inc. is a small embedded hardware platform manufacturer. Its products are mainly sold for OEM markets. The devices themselves are designed for use as routers, switches, firewalls and other lightweight networking appliances. They are based on Geode single chip processors with an x86 architecture and target on running open source operating systems, like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux.
The Soekris company resides in Santa Cruz, California, USA and is chaired and founded by Søren Kristensen.
Soekris also markets hardware crypto accelerators based on Hifn processors for FreeBSD and OpenBSD systems.
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