Linpus is a hopeless distro. But at least you know that the hardware is supported by Linux.
Quite so, Ken but a tidy little machine.
You must be a Bargain Hunt Fanatic !
Nice find.
Good spot!
I’ve been looking for neat enough box, preferably mini-itx rather like a fit-pc which I could leave on for extended periods without excess heat or power usage, with ideally an external power supply. Possibly I’d upgrade the drive to SSD. fit pc 2i has 2 ethernet and features for ISP type useage, but the price for Intel Atom 5xx seems way too much. I’ve been looking into a cheap Brazos (mini-ATX boards unfortunately) or a BYO Intel Atom mini-itx, but I just could not match that price.
Did you see any indications on noise and/or heat when finding this?
The CPU specs at AMD Athlon II Neo K325 processor - AMK325LAV23GM show a miserly 12W TDP, which would be perfect!
Looks like it’s the type of machine all desktop developers ought be made to target, would end bloat >:)
PassMark CPU - Nice eye candy shot of where the Neo K325 fits in performance wise
Passes muster by the “style” freak other half to… she probably think it runs windows though!
Is the Nvidea GeForce 9200 going to be annoying? I’d rather Nouveau than proprietary drivers if possible, when in graphics mode.
I am running an ASUSTeK Computer INC. EeeBox PC B202 as a server with openSUSE for my home LAN. It is a router, DNS server, Apache2 web server, mail server and firewall with very low power consumption. But I must admit that it was a bit more expensive. And I had to use a USB-Ethernet adapter as a 2nd NIC.
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. - Eee- ASUS EeeBox PC B202
# uptime
4:44pm up 130 days 22:11, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00