[Server-devel] Extreme Linux Server Available to North America
Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
dirakx at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 21:49:09 EDT 2008
Hi
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.
>
>
This is cool but what about $$ ?
>
>
>
> martin
> --
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Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
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