[TriLUG] One Board PCs Like the RPi

[Pete Soper]

On 02/19/2013 02:12 PM, John Mitchell wrote:
> Humm,
>
> Pi = 512 Meg Ram, 1 GHz, $35.00  about 250,00 users
I think the sales estimate at this point is over a million. The factory 
in England was making 16k/week last I heard and arrangements have been 
made for the Chinese to manufacture a supply for their own people.
>
> OM = 64 Meg Ram, 454 MHz, $59.38  about ?? users
>
> Duh!

The Linux port is likely to be very constrained with only 64mb of RAM. 
On the other hand, the Olimex board has very rich GPIO.  (I like Olimex 
a lot. IMO they make great stuff.) Unfortunately, GPIO is absolutely 
irrelevant to a Squid server, right? Tell us the truth: You want the 
weekend cat food dispenser capability for when you're at the beach. The 
cheaper board has no wired ethernet, but (if memory serves) provision 
for a WIFI chipset. It's been my experience that the actual performance 
of WIFI vs published performance in comparison to wired ethernet is 
similar to the actual performance of government vs X where X is anything 
except an opossum crossing the road or somebody with two freeway 
transponders in their car.

I would mention Beaglebone/Beagleboard, but the price of those is out of 
sight compared to RPI.

IMO a used laptop might be worth considering.  Although the RPI can be 
set up with nothing but power supply and network connection and remotely 
accessed through a full GUI desktop, there's something to be said for a 
keyboard you can actually type on and a display you can actually look at 
when the LAN is screwball, power is flakey, etc. And the power 
dissipation isn't too bad. My old G4 Powerbook sucks around 13 watts and 
can still do work.

-Pete

>
> john mitchell
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>   I'm looking to build a new, small footprint squid/dansguardian proxy
>> server. my current one is in a desktop tower. I am looking something small
>> like, but not necessarily, the Raspberry Pi (although it will probably
>> work). I'm looking something that will be low power, run linux, preferably
>> CentOS or another RH variant. I can get an Intel Atom for ~$90.00 but I'm
>> hoping something that doesn't require an ATX power supply.
>>
>> Besides the RPi, I was also looking at:
>>
>> - the Olimex iMX233 (http://www.mouser.com/new/**
>> olimex/olimex-olinuxinomaxi/<http://www.mouser.com/new/olimex/olimex-olinuxinomaxi/>
>> )
>> - The Olimex Micro (http://www.mouser.com/new/**
>> olimex/olimex-olinuxinomicro/<http://www.mouser.com/new/olimex/olimex-olinuxinomicro/>
>> )
>>
>>
>> Anyone run across one?
>>
>> -Roy
>>
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