On Monday, October 11, 2010 03:15:40 pm Erik Anderson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom > > <chrome at real-time.com> wrote: > > Anyone used Soekris hardware under Linux recently? > > > > http://www.soekris.com/ > > Carl - I haven't used the Soekris boards specifically, but have > extensively used PCEngines ALIX boards, which are very similar. > Specifically, I've used their ALIX 2d3 board, which is a 500MHz Geode > LX, 256MB RAM, 3 network interfaces, CF slot, 2xUSB, etc: > > http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm > > I'm running pfSense (a NanoBSD-based firewall distro) on mine, but I > know many people run linux on this platform as well. > > Highly recommended - mine runs very cool (no perceptable heat output > at all), perfectly silent, and draws 6W max. > > I order mine from mini-box.com. With the board, power supply, and > case, I believe it's about $150-$175 or so. > > -Erik mini-ITX form factor atoms are really moving in on this space. For $100 cheaper than I could get a soekris 5501 I got a dual core 1.6 ghz atom, with dual gigE ethernet. You can get very small mini-ITX cases that just use a 12 volt power brick. My system pulls 20 watts a idle, almost entirely due to the 2.5" laptop hard drive it has. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101011/3dab57ab/attachment.pgp