gOS development kit & Mainboard – VIA PC2500E 1.5Ghz

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So many of you have probably alread heard about the walmart PC for $200 that has sold out online and is raising some serious competition in the low end PC market. This PC runs on a 1.5Ghz Via C7 processor which consumes only 20Watts of power. The board it comes with has SATA, DDR2, 8 USB ports, Onboard Video & LAN. It’s a very very nice piece of hardware that can be purchased at clubit.com for a measly $60 + shipping. We picked up one to give it a go. We’ve got it running Fedora 8 at 1280×1024 resolution at a acceptable amount of response time. The video looks crisp and clear and everything worked right out of the box and it’s pretty amazing considering it only cost us $60….

Here are some photos of our new found toy:

New Intel Xeon Chips

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Intel released their new ‘Pynron’ chips over the weekend, new Xeon Quad cores that were supposed to be much smaller (45nm) and use a lot less power and I was looking at possibly using them in future servers and virtual servers however Intel is still a waste of juice… the lowest end Xeon Quad Core uses 120W of power … the highest powered AMD Opteron Quad Core uses 55W…. thats a hell of a difference….  I don’t care if the AMD is slower (and not by much), it’s still 4 cores and over time 55W is saving a lot of money in power than using 120W processors

Come on Intel… I’ll stop using AMD when you actually put out a efficient processor 😉

-Scott

Fedora 8 Release & Review

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I’m very happy to announce that he folks over at the fedoraproject have released version 8 codename `werewolf`.  It’s a very satisfying release, while I expect 9 to be the major step, 8 is very exciting, they’ve gotten a lot of work done on the ‘prettiness’ of the OS which it was a bit lacking previously.  I’m currently running the 64 bit version on a AMD Athlon 64 X2 here at the office and it’s absolutely flying and working beautifully.

Good job guys 🙂

-Scott