[SC.LUG] Re: mini-ITX

[Ewan Leith]

I've had a couple of mini-itx boxes over the years, and like richard
I've found the driver support is ok, but you often need binary
drivers, and the performance can be quite poor.

the intel based mini-itx motherboards give much better performance,
but cost quite a bit more, see this link for some prices

http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=29

it really depends what you want it for, if you're looking for a media
centre like a lot of people are, then it's not really suitable to go
for the via systems

On 11/3/06, Richard Smedley <smedley358 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Friday 03 November 2006 20:21, Geoff wrote:
> > Has anyone looked at/bought a mini-ITX board?
> > Not currently sure about driver support
>
> Hello Geoff,
>
> I tried one of my own, and one on review from UKLinux.net,
> about 3 years ago - at that time Debian was fine with all
> of the chip sets out of the box, but - as in the case of
> nVidia and ATI today - accelerated hardware video (eg to
> tuen the box into a PVR) was only available as a BLOB
> (proprietary plug-in to the kernel).
> I don't know how much it has changed - but UKLinux are
> still selling pre-installed ITX boxen - although they are moving
> to Intel for more graphics power, and faster processors as VIA
> boards are not increasing their speed as much each year.
> We had an ITX at work a few weeks ago, I think it was fine,
> though I couldn't necessarily tell you which BSD or GNU
> was put on it.
>
> http://www.linitx.org/ is probably still the best source of info.
>
> HTH,
>
>  - Richard
>
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> Richard Smedley,                                         Richard at sc.lug.org.uk
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