I am looking to buy a gigabyte BRIX I5. The price at Memory Express is $380.
I would want to run likely Debian Linux on it because I loaded Ubuntu on an old PC and I didn't really like what I saw. >From what I see from the specs and talking with the sales rep who to me seems really professional... The suggestion so far is the I5 instead of I3 or an I7. But I am not sure of the CPU differences and the chip set differences and $200 bux is not all that great a deal. To be honest it in fact costs me about $200 bux to fill the gas tank! What I would like to do is run either VMware or OpenBOX or some other VM and I really at this time don't have much need for any of this. But if I do have need I will want to be running everything from DOS through OS/2 and versions of winders to XT. I am told this boxen supports dual heads. I have been "also" told there is a Cat-6 and a Cat-7 solution to run HDMI video over ethernet but what I can tell is everything in that area is in fact totally proprietory and non standard. It must run IP. But the protocols must be something like UDP on 2 cables to get the bandwidth. Am I right? We can figure this out! I do know we can run X over any ethernet i/f and all we will need is a little CPU which can be an appliance and if we are simply looking for a simple reference display which would be the MOST I would want to have on a 3rd or 4th monitor then it seems the i/f's on this little box will do the job. Can anyone advise? Is there something else I should look at? Are their glitches in the BRIX? Will it run a full decent version of a VM if I want to go there and will it at least run Debian? Next. It costs about $250 for the SSD HDD at 250 GB. I can get a USB drive for $50 bux. If the machine can boot from USB then why do I want the SDD HDD? USB is already faster than SCSI.. or am I mistaken? I have run lots of SCSI equipment and some people consider me an expert. Maybe next year they will consider me a historian. If the boxen can boot off USB then I can buy FIVE (5) USB drives each of which will boot faster than the best SCSI drives we ever used for the best servers we were able to do 10 years ago so why do I want SSD? (other than it is real sexy and I like no moving parts) I want to configure a low cost and very decent portable office. This should be easy to do. Ideas please? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
