[CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

[SilverTip257]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Am 13.12.2013 um 01:10 schrieb SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Leon Fauster <
> leonfauster at googlemail.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> Unless it's embedded hardware ... by the time EL6 isn't supported I'll
> be
> >>> you'll have a beefier x86_64 machine as a firewall! :)
> >>
> >> any suggestions?
> >>
> >
> > I was thinking maybe a Soekris board with Intel Atom CPUs can get you the
> > 64-bit CPUs you want.  But no ... once you get through the models that
> have
> > AMD Geode LX CPUs (which are 486/586) you stumble into models that have
> > Intel Atom CPUs that are in the E6xx family which are not 64-bit capable.
> > And boy are the upper-end models a bit salty (might be a bit cheaper from
> > a distributor/reseller).
> >
> > You could build a mini-ITX system ... but you'd probably quadruple power
> > consumption (~5w for Geode LX800 systems and likely ~20w for Atom
> systems).
>
>
>
> i got a response from Pcengines: "The new boards are still in the beta
> phase, production in february".
>
> It looks promising especially the roadmap  http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm:-)
>

Sweet!
That hardware is a big improvement over the current ALIX series with Geode
LX800s.
Gotta wonder where they come in on the pricing scale?  Time will tell. ;-)

Thanks for sharing.

*If you purchase one I'd appreciate a review. :-)*

And to think I've been eyeing up the Ubiquiti Edge Routers [0] (but they're
$99 USD as opposed to nearly $200 USD or more for whatever the new APU
series will be).  But the ERs are MIPS-64, etc so I'd run the EdgeOS or
_maybe_ Debian (or anything else that supports that arch -- I've not done
much research as I prefer x86/amd64).

[0] http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax#edge-router-lite


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