On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:43 -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: > I've been eyeing up these mini-ITX boards - would like to make a quite > little file server. Does anyone here run a mini-ITX board (what > model)? Does it work out of the box? Anything not supported? I'd go > for one of VIA's as AMD's and others are still a little new and > pricey. Recommend a shop to purchase from (in the US)? > > Thanks! > - bpk
I have tested a Via EPIA M10000 a while ago. X installed and worked fine, but the internal graphic was to slow to playback xvid-movies with mplayer, an external pci-graphic card should solve this. The soundchip was supported out of the box too. Right now I have a Via EPIA PD10000 (with two 10/100MBit LAN adapters onboard) with 512MB RAM running as a home dsl router / gateway / print-/fileserver but only for a small amount of not important data with one harddisk drive. I am quite happy with it, since it get its job done and does not use much electricity. To give you an idea of its speed: a 'make buildworld' of FreeBSD 5.4 is done in about 2 hours. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0xD25FCC81 | http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.asc Fingerprint: D182 6F22 7EEC DD4C 0F6E 564C 691B 0372 D25F CC81
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