On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Alex <zhao...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, I've been playing plan9 in qemu for sometime now. the > only computer I have is a PS3/ubuntu9.04, and I'm thinking about buy a > low cost x86 board for plan9. Is intel D510MO a good choise?
I can't comment on how this motherboard runs Plan 9 but I'm using it as a headless Linux server to run venti and do Go programming. I put it into a mini-box.com M350 enclosure w/ their 80W picoPSU-80 power supply (selling in a kit for $69). Add some RAM and a hard drive and you have a very compact, reasonably powerful system. Since the board is passively cooled w/ a heat sink and the PSU plugs right into the board, the only noise comes from the HD. Most sites rate the idle power draw at ~20 watts. Overall I'm very pleased w/ it. I should note though that the case does get warm above the heat sink. However since the Atom doesn't support ECC RAM (for that matter neither does the mighty Core i7) I'm somewhat cautious about trusting it as an always on file server without additional checksums in software. Pretty much all AMD chips support ECC RAM, although of course mobo/BIOS support is a different matter. John
