[Gllug] silent cheap pc

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 16:48 +0100, Steve Nelson wrote:
> On 5/24/05, Rich Walker <rw at shadow.org.uk> wrote:
> > neil chambers <neil at cozyspace.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have been on the lookout for a reasonably priced fanless PC that
> > > will sit under the desk at home and run my "stuff that must not be
> > > turned off - ever!".
> 
> I have a SparcStation5 running Debian.  Its very quiet, cool, and
> reliable, and perfectly responsive.  Its never fallen over, and has
> been running continually for over a year.  I think I paid about 20
> quid for it.


Hmmm. I have a Sparcstation 20 (cost me a fiver). It is quietish (but
hot) is as slow as hell (even though it's dualed-up) and falls over
every ten to twenty days though I run it pretty hard. (Running Aurora
Linux 1.0 - a RedHat 7.3 clone).

I don't recommend it :(


> 
> If you want something smaller, maybe one of the mini-itx boxes - my
> friend uses one of these, but it cost him rather a lot more than my
> SS5.
> 
> S.
-- 
Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk>
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