Low Power Linux Box

Jon Savage jonathansavage at gmail.com
Mon Sep 6 14:17:41 UTC 2004


>now here's my issue.  my linux box will probably stay running 24/7.  i want
>something that consumes as little power as possible.  my current machine is
>an athlon xp 2400.  i notice if i leaving running all the time, my electric
>bill is substantially higher and my house is noticably warmer.

I'd reccomend looking into a Shuttle XPC. I've had 2 SS51G's running 
Fedora Core 24/7  for over a year. The machine does a decent job on
compiles (2.4 Celeron/512 RAM) but if I were doing a lot of that sort
of thng I'd probably put in a P4 + 1GB ram. YMMV.

Bests

Jon Savage





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