top | item 4048878 (no title) xxqs | 13 years ago hmm. I saw somewhere it was characterized as highly hackable discuss order hn newest WiseWeasel|13 years ago I'd get something like this instead, and put Debian on it:http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/PT.SJ4P2.001 xxqs|13 years ago I'm currently using two types of devices:-- 10" Acer AspireOne netbooks. They are cheap, and Ubuntu works flawlessly (true before 12.04)-- ALIX boards from pcengines.ch. They are even cheaper, and low-power, and with RS-232 console port. Perfect if you don't need CPU power.but for the cases when I need to do packet trace on a Gigabit link, I need to make sure the traffic is low enough for the acer netbook to catch up
WiseWeasel|13 years ago I'd get something like this instead, and put Debian on it:http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/PT.SJ4P2.001 xxqs|13 years ago I'm currently using two types of devices:-- 10" Acer AspireOne netbooks. They are cheap, and Ubuntu works flawlessly (true before 12.04)-- ALIX boards from pcengines.ch. They are even cheaper, and low-power, and with RS-232 console port. Perfect if you don't need CPU power.but for the cases when I need to do packet trace on a Gigabit link, I need to make sure the traffic is low enough for the acer netbook to catch up
xxqs|13 years ago I'm currently using two types of devices:-- 10" Acer AspireOne netbooks. They are cheap, and Ubuntu works flawlessly (true before 12.04)-- ALIX boards from pcengines.ch. They are even cheaper, and low-power, and with RS-232 console port. Perfect if you don't need CPU power.but for the cases when I need to do packet trace on a Gigabit link, I need to make sure the traffic is low enough for the acer netbook to catch up
WiseWeasel|13 years ago
http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/PT.SJ4P2.001
xxqs|13 years ago
-- 10" Acer AspireOne netbooks. They are cheap, and Ubuntu works flawlessly (true before 12.04)
-- ALIX boards from pcengines.ch. They are even cheaper, and low-power, and with RS-232 console port. Perfect if you don't need CPU power.
but for the cases when I need to do packet trace on a Gigabit link, I need to make sure the traffic is low enough for the acer netbook to catch up