I did some experiments to find out what is the bare minimum I would need for remote work (VPN+RDP). It turns out it would be possible, albeit a bit slow, on a Pi B (512MB of RAM) using OpenBSD or FreeBSD. The latter was a bit faster.
With Raspbian, I would need more memory (1GB did the job).
On the negative side, there aren't as many packages for the BSDs on ARM.
Anyway, it got me interested enough to buy an x86 laptop just to run FreeBSD.
With Raspbian, I would need more memory (1GB did the job).
On the negative side, there aren't as many packages for the BSDs on ARM.
Anyway, it got me interested enough to buy an x86 laptop just to run FreeBSD.