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- <li><em>date</em>: Mon Apr 19 21:46:43 2004</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: runman at speedfactory.net (Greg)</li>
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Greg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org]On Behalf Of Dow
> Hurst
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:41 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] small/book pc's for linux lan
>
>
> I would like to have something along those lines for all our firewalls at
> peoples houses. No fans, boot off a CD, and maybe have a CF card
> for rules
> and logs. No fans means a sealed case and no dust to bother with.
> Dow
>
>
> Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> > Preston Boyington wrote:
> >
> >>i am in the market for a couple of relatively inexpensive book
> sized pc's (want small/unobtrusive). i would like onboard sound,
> nic, and decent video (and usb interface of course). i won't
> need an internal cdrom/floppy/whatever and am debating on even
> having an internal hard drive.
> >>
> >>when i looked at the thinknic offerings (admittedly, a while
> ago) they seemed a bit... dated. with no real upgrade path
> (fixed processors?). i understand that the server is doing
> most/all the work, but it would be nice to have options.
> >>
> >>basically i want to network boot and setup some dumb terminals.
> music, webpages, email, and openoffice.org will all be piped to
> each box (100 mip network). my server is a dual PIII 800 with
> 1/2 gig memory (currently) and hdd's to be determined. this will
> only be for a max of 10 people with an average 3 at any given time.
> >>
> >>i am looking into LTSP and other distro's, but would appreciate
> any feedback i can get.
> >>
> >>anyone using similar?
> >
> >
> >
> > Take a look at the Mini-ITX motherboards from VIA.
> > Some of the motherboards are fanless and you can buy fanless cases.
> > If you net boot with PXE (or add some flash) you can omit the hard disk.
> > No moving parts will make the solution totally quiet.
> >
> > They are definitely on my list of things to play with ;-)
> >
> >
> > Stephan
> >
> >
> >
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