[TriLUG] prowling for a small form-factor Linux box

[Andrew Perrin]

Neat idea. What about using a mini-itx setup (see
http://www.mini-itx.com/)? Typically, as I understand it, these take
low-power, and therefore low-noise and low-heat, processors. There's no
reason you couldn't buy a high-end sound card and pop it in.  No fans on
the downstairs box should mean low interference with your sound system
too.

If you wanted to get really fancy, you could try booting it off the net,
so you'd have no disk in the machine either.

ap

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Greg Brown wrote:

> Hey all.  I'm starting to search for a small form-factor linux box.
> The purpose of this server is going to be the front-end of my home
> audio system.  I've been ordered to get the 400 or so CDs digitized,
> organized, categorized, etc.  So, my thoughts here are to rip
> everything to MP3 (to allow for portability between the Macs) and place
> all the files on my upstairs disk server.
>
> I'm looking for a small form factor *with excellent audio* (as I'd like
> to plug this into my existing home audio system via RCA jacks) and an
> PHP/Apache web server to sit downstairs on a 100 meg link.  All the CDs
> and tracks will be organized in a MySQL database residing on the disk
> server.  The user interface will be the PHP/Apache interface on the
> small form factor box.  The idea here is the little, and hopefully
> quiet, box will pull songs off the disk server and cache them on the
> audio server to be played over the stereo.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what might fit this bill?  Audio quality and
> noise are the highest factors followed by appearance and power draw.
> I'm hoping to find something that sounds great, looks great, and uses
> little power.   Heh.. if only it were that easy!
>
> Greg
>
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