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For a long time, I needed an access point + VPN client, and I've considered the Turris Omnia. Ultimately though, for this type of job, any SBC with Linux does

For a long time, I needed an access point + VPN client, and I've considered the Turris Omnia. Ultimately though, for this type of job, any SBC with Linux does this job (and more); the differences were: - USB wifi cards are unstable and unsuited as access points, so for stable connection, SBCs require a separate access point - one must configure Linux manually, while the Omnia is ready out of the box (but it's relatively easy to configure Linux) - for the price of the Omnia, one gets a more powerful (and more flexible) SBC I think generic SBCs can comfortably cover a number of Omnia use cases (and do more). On the other hand, ease of use is obviously a winner for Omnia, were required.

bonzini 5y ago
The Turris Mox is also quite interesting. Of course any SBC will do and it's probably harder to run a non-Turris OS on the Mox than on an EspressoBin that has a similar SoC; the advantage however is the very extensible hardware architecture. It has optional PoE support and up to 1G of RAM, and you can also add any mix of extra USB3 ports, network ports, mini-PCIe slots etc.
zokier 5y ago
> USB wifi cards are unstable and unsuited as access points, so for stable connection, SBCs require a separate access point Luckily there are popping up various sbcs with pcie these days, so you potentially could get more stable setup with those.