[lug] Low power servers.

[Bear Giles]

I did embedded net-top work years ago so I always think of that including
the hardware for cable TV, or at least the connections for you to put in
the cable-provided adapter, but I'm probably weird that way. My system is
old enough that it doesn't have HDMI out but I think all of them do now. It
also only has 1 GB of memory. :-(

It's surprising how much you can do with them - mine's currently running
postgresql + tomcat to support a java dev environment (artifactory,
subversion, sonar, etc.) I wouldn't use it in an office with 20 developers
but for one or two people it's a good functionality/power consumption
tradeoff.


On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com>wrote:

> I use a Zotac nettop like this at work for displaying a NOC dash. It's
> running Ubuntu and works very well. It's based on one of the AMD e350
> Fusion chips, and I daresay it's over-powered for this application.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Aaron Nichols <anichols at trumped.org>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I've been a fan of atom-based 'booksize' systems (see newegg.com) in
>>> the past but they may be hopelessly outdated now.
>>>
>>>
>> I recently bought something like this and there are some reasonably
>> modern systems available that are about the size of an apple mini. If you
>> search 'nettop' on amazon or newegg you'll get some good examples. You can
>> find a reasonable system for $300-$400 with an Atom or AMD equivalent
>> processor and a few gig of ram. Some of these have USB3 and newegg has
>> recently been running deals on some of them where you can get a 'free' SSD
>> with certain models.
>>
>> I'm running openelec on mine off an SD card, but they should just as
>> easily run a variety of Linux/BSD versions depending on the hardware.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
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