[nzlug] Energy saving Linux

[Hadley Rich]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:26:34 Michal Ludvig wrote:
> 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.

I'd like to 'me too' that. They are great systems, not the fastest but very 
useful indeed and the low power consumption and noise are great in certain 
situations.

I use one for our home phone system which works well, one for a NFS root 
MythTV frontend (a little slow for this purpose) and have a couple of them in 
ultra small cases which I use for portable servers. I've also got a couple at 
client sites acting as file servers for a handful of people.

hads

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