Re: new low power server

[Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robin Edwards wrote:
> I've been using a Shuttle with an Athlon XP3000 as workstation, print
server,
> music server, misterhouse server and for data collection from my
Weather Station
>  until now on Suse 11.1.  Recently put a power meter on it and it is
using
> 80Watts (7x24).
> So, decided to look into driving down my power usage and this is on
target list.
>  I'm interested in any other experiences and happy to publish mine. I
was very
> interested in Ian's experience with Tranquil BBS2.  I've also had a
look at
> Bubba2 and found interesting, Drobo and been reading the MiniITX
website but
> cant decide what is best.
>

There's this:
http://www.fit-pc.co.uk/
But no serial port(s).

There are new atom processors with higher levels of integration coming
late this year apparently, which should make really low power
motherboards much easier to come by (I hope...).

Jim


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