Since I don’t actually use the appliance (or any similar version of CentOS) on anything, I can’t say what hardware support the appliance would or would not have. You might need to check this out yourself. My gut feeling is that it would be fine once you figure out how to overwrite the “ChromeOS” that is currently(?) on it. Watch out for any potential “secure boot” BIOS problems that could exist on this thing since it gets sold as a media player in mind.
Depending on what your usage requirements are, I would question long term reliability of such a thing. Note that the Intel NUC has not proved to be a very long-lived device either and I generally trust ASUS products less! If you don’t care that this thing could have a likelihood to failing in the next year or two of 24/7 usage, then go for it. Note that in my case, I used a previously used PC to power our Rivendel at our radio station, which would normally be a very poor choice too! However, this computer was taken from a pile of other identical units (think lots of spare parts), and contains a set of mirrored drives, redundant power supplies and a proven reliable Gigabyte motherboard, all in a filtered rack mount case with lots of [noisy] fans to keep things cool. Furthermore I have another, partially current identical unit as a very “cold standby” could be made ready to replace a fully failed unit in a day or so, plus yet another computer (that wear other hats as well) that automatically gets daily rsyncs from the onair system, and can also “go on the air” in just a few minutes should the main fail (while allowing me to update the “cold standby” from it). Not to mention, there is yet another set of redundant computers (from same batch) at the radio transmitter site that automatically take over with some simple “backup audio programming” if there is any loss of audio stream from the studio itself for any reason. In short, I still sleep well at night even though I have a tired 8-year old computer providing programming to this radio station! PS: Actually, I’m a little surprised all this IS still running well at this point, which is why is shouted “STILL” in my previous post. But oh well, the station owner has a “don’t fix it if it ain’t [yet] broke” attitude. From: Seth Stevenson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 2:12 PM To: Jim Stewart <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RDD] good off the shelf computer for Rivendell What about the Asus Chromebox-M004U? Any thoughts about running the Centos appliance on it?
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