Recommendations for miniture linux pc (perhaps with linuxbios?)

From: David Brown (david_at_no.westcontrol.spam.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:22:18 +0200

I'm thinking of putting together a small linux server for my home network.
The sort of things I want to run on it are firewalling, a vpn, mail server,
web server, and maybe a few other bits and pieces. It's going to be low
traffic (for example, I want to host a website and mailing list for my
wife's horse club), so I don't need a lot of power. I'm quite happy setting
all this up, but I'm looking for something physically smaller and far quiter
(i.e., no fans, and a hard disk that powers-off when not needed) than the
dinosaur (P166) pc's that I've been playing with so far.

What I'm looking for, therefore, will be a small board using something like
an NS Geode or VIA processor, with perhaps 256 MB ram (to get more caching,
and therefore less disk usage), and two ethernet ports. Display, keyboard
and mouse support are fairly irrelevant - I'll only use them to get the
system up and running.

Also, does anyone here have experiance with linuxbios? It certainly sounds
like a nice project, but I guess it won't be of particular benifit here (I'm
not bothered about boot-times on an always-on server :-)

Any recommendations or useful websites would be much appreciated. 

--
David
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