VIA just announced a motherboard using the 'Mini-ITX' form factor. This
thing is SMALL - about 6.5" square and it includes built in Audio,
Video, NIC, etc plus a PCI slot to boot for whatever I/O it may not have
http://www.via.com.tw/en/VInternet/mini_itx.jsp
Plus the C3 Pent III clone (800MHz) it uses often can be run with just a
heatsink (no fan) which means it'll be quiet.
Boy what fun it would be to put embedded (or even normal) Linux on this
baby and hide it somewhere. Shuttle had a nice small system in teh
SV24/25 series (http://www.shuttleonline.com/spec.php3?model=sv25) but I
imagine someone will come out with an even smaller box based on teh
above board.
Sigh - so many toys, so little time.
Mike
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