On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 11:27 -0700, Andrew Porter wrote: > Have any on the list had experience with > fanless PCs running Linux, more especially Debian? The Zalman TNN 500A does a good job running Debian sarge on an Intel 865 mobo, 2.8GHz P4, 1GB RAM, 79G SCSI, 120G SATA, a CD RW, DAT, DLT, a floppy, and some PCI cards -- a pretty well filled up box, in other words (2 RAM slots left). The box was profoundly expensive, and I had to put a small fan (inaudibly running on very low voltage) on the DLT drive. And both front and back doors are open. But without looking at the LEDs, I can't tell whether it's on or off. No fans, and the only motors are in the disk drives -- it removes heat with heat pipes. And I had to slightly take apart the RME soundcard to get it in the PCI bus. It's also kind of funny looking. The whole box is a dead black, heavily finned heat sink, and the disks are mounted on shelves hanging out in the open. It's in my bedroom. At first I bought a very quiet machine from e-racks, but 'quiet' doesn't mean the same thing to a computer designer that it does to an audio techie. This is the first quiet computer I've had since the Mac Plus... -- Glenn English ghe@slsware.com GPG ID: D0D7FF20
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