[clue-tech] Mini-itx and pico-itx

[John]

You also may want to check into a 'stompbox' and also look up gumstix.

On Jan 31, 2008 12:52 AM, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
>
> > So, I was reading an article detailing someone putting together a
> > pico-itx
> > from a barebones kit, and I got to wondering about these. Right now,
> > it
> > looks a tad expensive, so I started casting around for what's up with
> > mini-itx systems.
>
> I've built a couple using the early EARLY mini-ITX Via boards, bought
> from vendors I found out later were too high-priced.  Heh heh... so I
> wouldn't recommend them now.
>
> But the Soekris and others seem to really have come along nicely and
> some of the SBC type offerings are cheaper now.  Mini-ITX kinda headed
> off toward the market segment that covered the quiet PC's needed with
> big CPU's and MPEG-hardware capable video cards for things like MythTV
> front-ends, after a while there, and also into the Car PC/Car-puter
> market segment... and routers and firewalls seemed to go more into the
> SBC hardware and smaller.
>
> Typing "tiny linux firewall" into Google found THIS announcement, and
> for $220?  Not bad...
>
> http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2319765902.html
>
> Do-it-yourself and the desire to do so, I get... but that thing's
> "done and baked" and available for just over $200?  It'd be awfully
> tempting to just get something like that and move on to doing
> something more interesting than building a firewall... especially with
> the feature-set they've already hacked into that thing.
>
> So in the end, it all depends on what you want to do.  I get it if
> you're dead-set against buying something already baked, but even their
> hardware and bootstrapping it up with your own copy of Linux and going
> to town, wouldn't be too bad a deal.
>
> This board only has one LAN port, but a friend bought one, and it's
> working flawlessly for what he's using it for.  Damn cheap too, for
> all that stuff....
>
>
> http://store.mo-co-so.com/intel-d201gly2-fanelss-mini-itx-motherboard-p-79.html
>
> You could add another Ethernet to it, I assume.  I haven't hunted that
> website for alternatives they might have that would have another
> Ethernet port so it'd make a better firewall.   Just clicked on their
> motherboard offerings, and apparently they have one Intel that's
> cheaper still by $10, and the Jetway line.  I've seen the Jetways
> talked about on some other lists and no serious complaints about them,
> that I've seen, but that could be Googled too... of course!  (GRIN)
>
> --
> Nate Duehr
> nate at natetech.com
>
>
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