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: > >> >>> In a way it's a shame... >>> At the same time I can see why RH is going x86_64 only ... much hardware in >>> data centers is 64bit capable and running 64bit OSes. >>> >>> And they're also will be supporting three releases (5, 6, 7) for a period >>> of time as well. >>> >>> It's probably a good time to consider other alternatives. :-/ >>> Fedora, Debian, Voyage, OpenWrt, Gentoo, etc, etc. >> >> http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ >> >> >>> 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 :-) -- LF