The NZ importer of Mini-ITX is Checksun in Auckland. I expected them to deal only through re-sellers, but they did sell an EPIA 800 to me direct at a good price. They were out of stock with the EPIA 5000 (the fanless 533MHz version) so call ahead. I bought a Cubid 2688 case from Ascent, and have been using this as my home machine for a couple of months now- it's great, but the 800MHz version has a CPU fan which is actually quite loud.
I just bought an EPIA V, which is pretty much the same as an EPIA 5000. It is fanless, and has only one IDE channel. The second IDE channel that you would find on the EPIA 5000 has been replaced with a floppy connector. I got the EPIA V from www.everythingliux.com.au in OZ, part no. ELS1000, which includes a case and fanless PSU and RAM. Their website states that this is built with an EPIA 5000, but in fact was delivered with EPIA V. They say this is an oversight on the website and should be changed, and that all ELS1000 will be built with EPIA V. It is fine for my application, and a good price for the assembled system IMHO (no hard drive! Beware!). For further information Knoppix spots everything that is integrated on the mobo and "just works". Debian 3.0 woody (with 2.4 kernel option) also works, but you have to identify and load some of the modules yourself. IMO it would also be worthwhile hunting down newer versions of the video and sound drivers to replace the ones included with the distro. I have heard that Red Hat 7.2 works out of the box on this board with no problems, but that could be hearsay. Have fun! Andy > > Anyone know where (in NZ, ChCh preferably) i can get mini-itx mainboards, > in particular the one with the low power, low heat, fanless eden cpu? > > My robot project just scaled up an order of magnitude! > > -- > "All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file > for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and > symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel > decompile and basic repatch update." - theregister.co.uk > >
