Re: [LUG] Single Board Computer

[Aaron Searle <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

If you find you need a a fair amount of grunt I've found the ALIX boards 
quite good, 800mhz @ ~5W. Ideal for a home router or a small server. 
Sadly they only have a small CF card for storage, but that's what NAS is 
for.

http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm


ANDREW PRATT wrote:
>  Neil,
>
> Thanks for your comments, I will take a look at the other possibilities.
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> --- On *Fri, 26/12/08, Neil Williams /<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
>
>     From: Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Subject: Re: [LUG] Single Board Computer
>     To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     Date: Friday, 26 December, 2008, 3:18 PM
>
>     On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:15:31 +0000 (GMT)
>     ANDREW PRATT <am.pratt469@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     > Hello,
>     > This is the first post that I have made. I have been using Linux for about
>     three years now using Slackware and Slax.
>
>     Fancy Debian instead?
>
>     > I am sending this on a single board computer
>      that is
>      actually intended for
>     embedded applications.
>     > I bought it from RS Components, it comes as a single circuit board
>     approximately 90mm x 90mm, with a 133MHz fanless 486 processor and 64MB of RAM. 
>
>     If the board has any internal storage (or can be fitted with such) -
>     even just an SD card, you could run Emdebian on such a machine without
>     an external hard drive. Things are very early stages but Emdebian Grip
>     is one option - the much smaller Emdebian Crush isn't available for x86
>     at this time (and will take months to become available on anything
>     except ARM).
>
>     > I pre-installed Slackware 11 on an old 20GB hard drive using another PC
>     and transferred it to this computer.
>
>     So what storage does the board contain?
>
>     > The power consumption is very low, not including the monitor it takes 1.7
>     amps at 5 Volts.
>
>     That isn't low power - that's a power-sucking-beast! ARM generally does
>     a lot
>      better
>      - down to <1W, not >8W - even some x86 netbooks come in at
>     substantially less than 8W. What's it doing with all that power? Try
>     putting that board on a set of batteries. Ouch.
>
>     > I have an web based application in mind for it using a PIC processor
>     and the Apache web server. It has four com ports and ethernet.
>
>     No USB?
>
>     > I am using the Lynx command line web browser, X is a bit ambitious! 
>
>     Not that ambitious, ARM processors can handle XFCE or GPE in as much
>     RAM.
>
>     > Anyone else with a similar interest?
>
>     http://linux.codehelp.co.uk/
>
>     http://www.emdebian.org/
>
>     http://balloonboard.org/index.html
>
>     Just a few of my similar interests.
>
>     -- 
>
>
>     Neil Williams
>     =============
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