[TriLUG] slightly OT: small "network" appliances

[ryan wheaton]

These Mini-ITX boxes seem to be exactly what I'm looking for...(with 
more handywork involved, but i like that).  My only real concern is 
getting RH 7.3 or 9 to run on it.  From what I've seen so far the VIA 
EPIA 5000 seems to run RH just fine.  But I just wanted to ping y'all to 
see if you had any problems / successes with this motherboard?

-r

Brent Verner wrote:

>[2003-08-26 20:43] John Beimler said:
>| ryan wheaton wrote:
>| >A few years back, I remember seeing and playing with a little "box" from 
>| >Gateway that ran debian and was a web/DHCP/file, etc server.  It was 
>| >about the size of a Nintendo Gamecube, and was a pretty neat (although 
>| >not all the time practical) device.  I was wondering if anyone was still 
>| >making such a thing, or was this something made by Gateway as a novelty 
>| >type item and then thrown away by everyone??  Anyone seen anything like 
>| >this around lately?
>| >
>| 
>| The Mini ITX boxes (http://www.mini-itx.com/) are nice for this, 
>| although a few of the ones I've worked with had really cheap fans in 
>| them, and they sounded a lot like some of the big servers I've worked with.
>
>here's a _sweet_ little embedded board if you don't have huge
>CPU reqs.  I'm planning on making an order in the next 
>few weeks from the distributor in Atlanta.  The price including
>shipping (from TW) is around $300.  Contact me offlist if
>you're interested in one - we might be able to get a little
>better deal on the shipping, which was $20 for the last 
>single unit I requested.
>
>  http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LE-564.htm
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