From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Dec 10 21:24:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8B737B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:24:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6DAE43EB2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:24:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from ccs.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (8.12.3/8.12.3/(ccn-5)) with SMTP id gBB5Ohgp021713 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:24:43 -0700 Received: (qmail 8665 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2002 22:24:42 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO carotid.ccs.lanl.gov) (128.165.148.162) by 128.165.148.1 with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 22:24:42 -0700 Received: (qmail 3990 invoked by uid 3499); 10 Dec 2002 22:24:42 -0700 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 22:24:42 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:24:42 -0700 (MST) From: "Ronald G. Minnich" X-X-Sender: rminnich@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov To: Derek Barrett Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wal-Mart pcs for $200 In-Reply-To: <20021210232347.20221.qmail@graffiti.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Derek Barrett wrote: > Well Wal-Mart is selling pcs with Linux on them > for $200. They are 800mhz but are powered by a Via processor. > I've never heard of Via. Who makes that? works fine. VIA is the maker of something like 50% of the chipsets sold in the world. A very interesting company. You can get the boards alone from cwlinux.com for $105. AMAZING for a pIII/800 equivalent. (you have to supply memory) And, they will soon support linuxbios, so for clusters, no hard drive etc. needed :-) Runs clustermatic just fine. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message