[Server-devel] Extreme Linux Server Available to North America

[Martin Langhoff]

Holger mentioned the Plat'Home machines recently featured on
Slashdot... Wad and myself looked at the specs recently. Overall, they
are good, I think the summary is:

 - Good kit - sealed, fanless, flash RAM, lots to like...
 - RAM ceiling is too low. 512MB would be the minimum workable RAM right now.
 - Shifts the "problem spot" to the ext HD.

At the end of the day, they are not that different from running the XS
from an XO-1 HW platform. The upside is that you have ethernet ports,
the shared limitation is that you have no internal HD and very limited
RAM.

If those same machines could be ordered with RAM ranging from 512 to
2GB... instant love ;-) -- add a fanless ext USB drive enclosure and
run run run.

cheers,




martin
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