[Wolves] Fwd: Super little barebones

[Political Penguin]

DragonMaster wrote:
> Mark Ellse wrote:
>> And this is my second attempt at sending this!
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Mark Ellse* <markellse at chaseacademy.com
>> <mailto:markellse at chaseacademy.com>>
>> Date: 2009/7/18
>> Subject: Super little barebones
>> To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> <mailto:wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>>
>>
>>
>> The Foxconn R10-S1 is an Ultra Small Form Factor Intel Atom (230)
>> Barebones system. Comes in box with integral psu, motherboard,
>> processor. Only costs £80. Needs a fiver's worth of RAM and it's a
>> good LTSP terminal. Also pretty good basic machine. Available from
>> LambdaTek. I noticed that someone had used the slightly faster one
>> (R10-S3), which costs £90, to run Mac OSX.
>> http://www.osnews.com/story/21564
>>
>> Exciting bit of kit.
>>
>> Mark
>
>   Would this work as a firewall/gateway (with a 2 x ethernet port card
> added) and as a web-server for a home network - I can't see any reason
> why not, but for £160 I would have a nice compact server system for
> home...
>
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£160? Where are you looking? Got it down to £69.69 for the S1 model.
Although an extra £30ish for a dual core version doesn't seem that bad
either.

Gareth