Linux on Shuttle PCs

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Layzee

Hiya,

I'm looking to build a small linux box, I want something the size of perhaps a shuttle - or in that region, mainly because i would like to hide it out of the way somewhere.

I have enought spare parts for a reasonable pc, except case and motherboard. I have spare hard drives 2 ibm 30 gigs, and a seagate 60gig, about 384meg sdrams, a duron 650, SB1024 and an old voodoo banshee. Anyone got any recommendations for case, mobo that will run linux nicely (perferably redhat).

The shuttles look nice, I was thinking of going for something like the SS40G - i know i'd have to get new ram, but im not too bothered about that - I just want to make sure I'll be able to put linux on these machines.

Anyone got any ideas?

/Layzee
 
WOW!

Hi,

Thanks for the replies... I really like the look of the mini-itx boards. Some guys actually got it into a model car?? That platform would make an excellent linux box! Could have some fun designing a box too :-)
 
My only concern with the Shuttle and the Asus equiv. is the power supply - my dad has one of the Asus Terminator's and it comes with a 150w power supply - has a cd, hd and a floppy attached. When attaching a 2nd hard drive it became unstable so thinking it would be power related I strapped on a 230w ps for a laff and she was happy as larry.

Problem is, as the power supply is tiny and a special shape, unless Asus make a more powerful version you cant easily have a safe permanent solution.

Just a thought...
 
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