From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 6 12:47:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1440C37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:47:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from Thanatos.Shenton.Org (chris.shenton.org [209.31.144.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A5D943EA9 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 58838 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Dec 2002 20:47:00 -0000 To: Andrew Thompson Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard References: <006601c29cab$ec3a9c80$0100000a@D9NLZD0J> <20021205234945.GA70487@tassie.net.au> <02Dec6.140248nzdt.119052@homer.fire.org.nz> From: Chris Shenton Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:47:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <02Dec6.140248nzdt.119052@homer.fire.org.nz> (Andrew Thompson's message of "06 Dec 2002 14:02:28 +1300") Message-ID: <87y9726fjv.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Thompson writes: > Or you could buy the 533MHz model that is fanless. That and a flash > disk and not more moving parts. I'm planning on doing this but net booting it and mounting filesystems via NFS. That way I can deploy a flock of them all over the house, totally noiseless (get the case with the fanless external wallbrick: http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/2688R/) and never have to install SW more than once (on the server). Stereo, TV room, kitchen, bedroom... (I have a Sun IPX in my kitchen I'm netbooting NetBSD off my FreeBSD machine; only noise is the P/S fan and it's pretty nice, but slow) The upcoming EPIA M series is designed for audio/video so would do well in stereo / home theater settings. I think my S.O. will draw the line at the bathroom door :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message