[Cialug] Small and quiet Linux box suggestions

[Nathan C. Smith]

Those are the very NUC-alike machines I had in mind.


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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Daniel A. Ramaley
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 9:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [Cialug] Small and quiet Linux box suggestions

On 2014-04-23 at 10:40:30 David Champion wrote:
> I've got one of the Asus / Atom mini PC's. It's OK but the CPU is just
> too slow for me.
> I think any of the Shuttle / Asus / Intel mini PC's with a Core i5 or
> better would work well for you.
> -dc

This sounds like a good possibility for something that is small and quiet, but still has good performance when needed:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/a-turbo-charged-quad-core-mini-desktop-gigabytes-brix-pro-reviewed/

It has "Intel Iris Pro 5200" graphics. I don't know what graphics are like today, but last time i checked, Intel was slow but compatible (open source drivers!), nVidia was fast but required proprietary drivers, and ATI was fast but the proprietary drivers were unstable. That was at least 5-6 years ago though; far enough in the past that ATI wasn't yet called AMD. Does Intel still have open source drivers? My current machine has an nVidia card, and while i've not had any problems with it, i would be quite happy if i could get back to a fully open-source system again.

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