Microtel from walmart?

[Mark Hutchings]

I have a friend that purchased one and put OpenBSD 3.1 on it for his 
firewall/internet gateway at his home.  Everything compiled real nice, and was 
able to upgrade the memory to 512MB with generic memory purchased off of 
pricewatch. (I think it was just regular PC133 memory.) I personally will 
purchase one a couple for a "test servers" in the next couple weeks unless I 
feel like building a couple from scratch.

It did lock up one time, but we think the 2nd NIC that he added was bad.  After 
he took it out, it has been flawless ever since.

Quoting Michael Pearson <thinkmike at kc.rr.com>:

> Has anyone purchased a Microtel SYSMAR710 box or similar from walmart for
> $199.86?
> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1957333&cat=86796&type
> =19&dept=3944&path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937%3A86796
> 
> It comes with Lindows installed but I would be curious as to any thoughts
> on
> how it runs on Lindows or any other flavor of linux.  At 800mhz and 128mb
> ram upgradeable to 1gig with a 10gb hd (5400rpm unfortunately) the deal
> looks
> decent.  I was thinking about turning one into a PVR.
> 
> Any/all comments suggested. thanks.
> 
> Mike
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