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From: infinite jest on 4 Mar 2010 17:30
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:59:29 +0100, Tinfoil Hat wrote:

> Thomas Overgaard, on 03/04/2010 12:55 PM, wrote:
>
>> This site might be interesting for you: <URL:
>> http://www.armedslack.org/>
>
> Thanks for the pointer. Yet they are on 12.2. I would really like to
> stay on the latest stable release, and waste little time to keep it up
> to date. I often use slapt-get for that purpose.
>
Your criteria is a little hard to hit, especially if price is thrown in
to the mix. In my opinion, a small board, al-a mini-ITX, etc. won't be
the cheapest route. You might go that way if other elements in your
criteria are more important. With those specialized boards, you'll have
to pay more to get "less." The best value is probably a semi-retired box
which you can repurpose. That works as long as it has a recent CPU and
can be outfitted with enough RAM. That would most likely be the cheapest
and possibly best route. Old boards may actually be more capable than the
other boards which were recommended on this thread.

It sounds like you are also adding "ease of use" into the criteria. For
the near term Intel architecture seems to be able to meet your criteria
better than ARM architecture. The motherboards with built in Atom CPUs
don't use a lot of power and have minimal fans. They are not fanless,
though. The performance tests give the edge to dual core Atom: the 330
wins out over the 230 for only a few dollars more.

But if the low power requirement is the most important, then biting the
bullet and learning about ARM on the sheevaplug may be the best option.
As far as I know, the "ArmedSlack" is the only precomiled version of
Slackware that is available, but there may be a lot more ARM boards later
in the year.
From: Robby Workman on 5 Mar 2010 23:52
On 2010-03-04, Tinfoil Hat <nope(a)than.ks> wrote:
> Robby Workman, on 03/03/2010 09:52 PM, wrote:
>
>> The SheevaPlug comes close, but isn't quite there yet (if only
>> because it has only 1 ethernet port).
>
> This one sounds interesting. One eth port is enough. Can you install
> plain ol' Slackware on an USB key or SD card and just boot them? I
> prefer not to waste time with patches, kernel modules etc.


Installation is a bit more involved than it is on x86 hardware,
but once it's installed, it "just works" pretty much like the
"plain ol' Slackware" does :) I'm using armedslack-current
on mine, so there have been a few bumps here and there, but
of course, that's expected.

I plan to get another one soon-ish (although I'll probably wait
for the GuruPlugs to hit the market), because I want one to
do "real work" (firewall) and one for tinkering and helping with
armedslack devel. Paypal contributions are welcome ;-)

-RW
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