Quoting Toby Corkindale ([email protected]):
> If you're serious about playing with small, low-power embedded-style
> devices, get the BeagleBone. The Linux support is excellent, there's
> lots of hardware you can add to it, and it has a million i/o methods.
On a vaguely related matter, I'm looking into replacing the 2001-era VA
Linux Systems model 2230 2U rackmount server running my main Internet
presence (shell for me and a bunch of other people, Web, ftp[1], SMTP,
Mailman mailing lists, DNS, ntp, rsyncd), with a fit-PC3. Primary
advantage of the latter, other than accomplishing a generally necesary
hardware refresh, is a great reduction in use of mains power. And noise
production.
Old New
Est. total power draw 100W 15W
CPU PIII/650 AMD G-T40E/1GHz[2]
Physical RAM 1.5GB 8.0GB
Disk space 89GB ~1TB
I'll be going from 3 count of internal 3.5" SCSI drives to 1 internal
SSD + a RAID1 pair of external 2.5" drives on eSATA, and going from
three fans to none.
Old: http://ebayimages.rswhost.com/301735/73414D.jpg
New: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/images/fit-PC3-standard-front.jpg
A good bit more money than a Beaglebone, but OTOH fully featured and
enough server firepower for another decade.
[1] http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/ftp-justification.html
[2] AMD G-series ('Geode') approximates Intel Atom, and is x86_64 arch.
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