From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4f34febc0802151309n83bafd4q463ad7edecf75554@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:09:55 -0800 From: "John Barham" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Consindering eBox-4854 for Plan9 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 56e17eb8-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I am considering purchasing an eBox IV Series box for a Plan9 > installation, and I was curious of any of your successes or failures > with these or similar systems. As has been mentioned on the list recently, the Everex gPC sold by Walmart (http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7754614) is comparable inasmuch as it's also a Via based system. I ordered one and installed Plan 9 on it without any problems a couple of days ago. (Well I'm getting heavy I/O load after booting even w/ DMA turned on but I suspect that's because I did a fossil+venti install and haven't gotten around to figuring out what's going on.) Video and and ethernet work out of the box. The gPC's case is much bigger than it needs to be so isn't nearly as compact as the eBox, but on the plus side it has more room for expansion. John