It would seem 2015 will be the year for Intel Atom C2000 (Avoton / Rangeley) hardware being available.
The Atom C2000 SoC offers 2/4/8 CPU core versions, AES-NI, server grade NIC's and no video... perfect for AstLinux. The Lanner USA folks informed me that the 4x NIC (no bypass) FW-7525B Atom C2358 Fanless Appliance is now available in production for $307 USD per unit for the barebone, optional $13 SSD kit with SATA cable. A stick of RAM and flash storage is additional. More info here... Lanner FW-7525B Atom C2358 Fanless Appliance http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:board_lanner_fw-7525b I have been testing the Lanner FW-7525A (6x NIC's w/bypass) with AstLinux for a few months, the FW-7525B (4x NIC's w/o bypass) should be the better match for AstLinux and available now. Coming down the road in 2015 is a series of boards by "ADI Engineering" http://www.adiengineering.com and sold by Netgate in the US... Production Boards http://store.netgate.com/Production-Boards-C209.aspx The ADI/Netgate boards have RAM and 4GB eMMC flash on board, so add a power supply and case to the above prices and you have an AstLinux solution (in theory). If the onboard 4GB eMMC is not enough then a mSATA/SATA SSD can be added. Of course until the ADI/Netgate boards are shipping and can be tested with AstLinux, we don't know for sure, but the Netgate folks are behind pfSense which has similar hardware requirements as AstLinux. Lonnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
