Dell usually sells cheap headless OS-less servers, eg: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=bsdwd4a&c=us&l=en&s=bs d&cs=04&kc=features~featured_server
If you're buying in bulk, and/or through official university channels, you may be able to knock the price down a little below that. - Justin -----Original Message----- From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P Purkayastha Sent: November 18, 2008 2:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Very cheap, small Linux boxes Randolph Baden wrote: > Some of you may remember me from when I e-mailed the list before > asking if I could get people to run some software for some of my > research. Well, I got pretty sidetracked by a few other projects and > there were a few other problems that needed to be taken care of before > I could start actually thinking about deploying the software. > > It's still not really ready yet (though I probably will still want > volunteers in the future). Right now we're thinking of getting a bunch > of cheap Linux boxes, putting our code on them, and sticking them in > people's houses as a kind of test run where we have control over them > and can modify them. My question is: does anyone know where I can get > extremely cheap bare-bones boxes that take up very little space? I > haven't really looked yet, but I thought some people might have some > good suggestions on this list before I start looking for them myself. > > Thanks! > > -Randy > There may be other like these: http://www.fit-pc.com/new/ These are a bit over your budget though, and only 500MHz cpu.
