On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 06:30:30PM +0100, Ed W wrote: > >NailKit .. > I like the idea, but they seem a tad expensive when you can get > nice (but larger) boards like PCEngines Alix for a little over half > the price?
I love the ALIX boards but don't think they are really competing with tiny ARM systems like the NailKit. > Not critiquing, but I need a smallish board for an embedded > mailserver project and have looked around for various things which > fit the bill. > Alix seems best bang for buck so far? Depends on your planned traffic load. The Geode LX is cool and all, and has decent performance, but it is in no way a throughput monster. <shameless plug> If you're going to get an ALIX board I can recommend replacing the BIOS with coreboot for a completely open source system. There is good support for a few ALIX boards. http://coreboot.org/ </plug> //Peter
