Re: [9fans] Off the shelves plan9-compatible desktop

[Jack Johnson <fragment@nas.com>]

nigel@9fs.org wrote:
> Beware the Via C3 Eden ITX motherboard. Neither the ethernet,
> vga, or audio are supported.

That would be the same motherboard in the Walmart PCs and their ilk.
The Lindows/eNote Mobile PCs seem to use (slightly?) different chipsets.

There is also a new series of EPIA motherboards coming out (EPIA-M, I
think) with a revised chipset and features (DDR, FireWire, etc), that
might be more successful.

http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81

-Jack

P.S.

For what it's worth, I was thinking about this interview with Dennis

	http://unix.se/article/articleview/950/1/24

and his comments about just using NT and drawterm, and realized that
he's got a good point, if you have more than one box and it has Ethernet
support, you're really home free.  A drawterm and standalone CPU server
with either kfs or fossil and life isn't all that bad.  With it's lone
spare PCI slot, a $200 Walmart PC and a $20 supported NIC isn't awful to
do some experimentation.

I'm thinking of picking up one of those $20 Sun IPX I saw last weekend
and just running drawterm, vnc and rdesktop indefinitely.