[wellylug] Linux on Small Form Factor PC's

Rob Giltrap rob at ubietygroup.com
Sat Feb 22 19:44:58 NZDT 2003


What's the price on a falcon?


On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 17:14, Wood Brent wrote:
> As a followup on the Lindows laptop and it's discussion of smaller boxes, I
> figure this may be of interest.
> 
> 
> The following are Small Form Factor systems I've sold/used running Linux. They
> are readily available locally (through me & others :-). Info available at the
> FIC & Shuttle sites or at www.dove.co.nz (the NZ importer/distributer) Plenty
> of reviews on the net of both, pretty favourable generally.
> 
> FIC Falcon CR51 ITX Mini PC
> SN41G2 Shuttle Mini PC
> 
> I've used Linux on both these. The FIC Falcon is a VIA 933Mhz cpu running
> Gentoo. Everything auto detected fine & installed. PL133 VIA chipset with
> Savage graphics & VIA Rhine NIC chipset. With 512Mb PC133 SDRAM compilations
> are OK even with the sluggish cpu. Very low power requirements, low heat
> dissipation & solid chassis.
> 
> The Shuttle is the oppposite. Lightweight aluminium chassis, lots of heat
> generated & one of the most innovative cooling systems around. I've sold both
> P4 & Athlon versions & like the Athlon one :-) Great specs. nForce2 chipset,
> with the nVidia drivers installed under Mandrake 9. A few hassles setting it up
> properly, but with an XP2600 cpu, 60Gb HDD, 1Gb DUAL port PC2700 DDR memory &
> dual on board GeForce4 MX graphics it is great. Most playable Tuxracer I've
> seen with integrated graphics & non of the IDE hassles with Intel 845 chipsets
> under Linux.
> 
> For a high end box, the Shuttle is hard to beat, for a low end, the Falcon goes
> well. Neither much use if you need lots of internal peripherals, otherwise very
> tidy solutions.
> 
> 
> If anyone is interested I should be able to bring at least one of them along in
> March???
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
>   .-.   Wellington
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