[sclug] small, quiet things

[Simon Heywood]

On the topic of motherboards and Linux compatibility, I've been eying up
one or two Mini-ITX systems recently. Hush [1] do a really nice looking
one for a reasonable price (via one of their UK resellers), and
LinITX.com (URI triv.) stock a load of others from various
manufacturers.

I'm tempted by the Hush one, what with it looking so nice 'n' all. But,
like seemingly all these small boxes, will involve a VIA EPIA
motherboard, which *appears* to require a stupidly recent version of
XFree86 for some video features, although it looks like the other bits
and pieces should be okay.

Someone's done a HOWTO [2] for these boards; someone's also done a page
detailing someone's experiences with Gentoo on a Hush box [3]. There's a
Debian installation guide for an EPIA system [4] but it's pretty low on
detail.

Has anyone here encountered one of these boards?

S.

[1] http://www.hushtechnologies.com/
[2] http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=378
[3] http://www.fbunet.de/htpc.shtml
[4] http://five.nocrew.org/via/debian.html