[nzlug] Energy saving Linux

[Michal Ludvig]

Marvin Pascual wrote:

> AOpen's miniPC, it uses 90 watts.  I don't know what other vendors
> that sells barebone PCs with a reliable power supply and consumes of
> not more than 100 watts.

As mentioned before VIA EPIA mini-ITX boards are one of the least power 
consuming PC-compatible systems available. They are not terribly fast, 
mainly due to their small L1 cache but still very good for what power 
they only need. With 2.5" laptop HDD the total wattage will hardly go 
over 40W.

I have been using several EPIAs over past few years and was always very 
happy with them. The main advantage is that the CPUs are x86 family 
therefore any distro or even windows run on it. Most of them even have 
one free PCI slot, some have multiple NICs or even PCMCIA socket. 
There's also a Dual-CPU EPIA (DP-310) but quite hard to buy.

Check out the full range here: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/

Currently I have one at home as a router and LAMP with 60W powersupply 
running Debian and can only recommend it.

HTH,

Michal