On Feb 14, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Ron McDowell wrote: > Or just get an Alix board http://www.pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm [available stateside from netgate.com] for projects like this. AMD Geode CPU, common VGA/USB keyboard input, i386 versions of most OSes work, I have 4.7 i386 running on one with a couple 500gb USB drives as a backup server.
I'll second that -- makes a great personal firewall. Also, I bought mine directly from pcengines.ch -- got it in like 3 days. I was amazed. Had to get the P/S from netgate (though it will take anything from 5v-18v). I loved 'em so much with OpenBSD on 'em I ended up buying a bunch for OOB connection to servers. . . Sean