VIA M10000G

Luke

Luke

Luke

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I've just bought a VIA M10000G from the MM. Bit of an impulse purchase, but they are the most enjoyable :)

I'd like to keep it as silent and small as possible, so was planning to use either a CF card (via a CF to ATA converter) or a USB flash drive instead of a hard drive.
Can anyone tell me if this is likely to work well?
I only want it for web browsing and watching non-HD movies on. The movies will all be streamed from my NAS.
Any CD/DVD needs will be fulfilled with an external drive.

I'm going to use a Pico PSU and will build a custom enclosure.
 
would probably be better getting a solid state hard disk rather than the CF card faster access and longer lasting. should work very well will benefit from a lot of ram and a stripped down OS my preference would be a linux variant for something like that.
 
SSD's are just too expensive at the moment. Sepped isn't critical, and CF's are cheap enough to replace if needed.
The board supports a max of 1Gb. Any suggestions on a decent flavour of Linux?
 
either DSL or YellowDog would be superb on that system very small light weight OS and you could add MythTV as a Media Player front end and use a IR remote to control the whole thing. Job Done :)
 
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