We are thinking about using the desktop-cousins of these netbooks (Eee Box PC from Asus) for similar things. But that is just because we need the screen real estate. owserver we run in some cases on little DIN-rail PCs (namely the Matrix systems from Artila - great little things which have additional Digi I/Os on board).
Michael On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Mr Robert Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Was recently looking at the small Atom based netbooks. Specifically the Acer > Aspire one, at AUD$430.00 it seems a great LOW cost platform to become a OWFS > server coupled with Apache seems a great self contained platform. 1.6GHZ > ATOM CPU, 1 G RAM and 120GB HDD. I would suggest at 1.6ghz maybe a good > platform for a ubuntu server class install that would be able to host a > modest Apache installation. Must be orders of magnitude better than an NSLU2. > > Anybody have any thoughts experiences in using these newer "Netbooks" in a > 365/24hr role. Although obviously not for critical applications, it would > draw little power and with wifi be self contained standalone with a great > screen. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Owfs-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
