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This is our preferred OpenLBR hardware. This fanless computer is intended to be mounted behind monitors in airports. It contains a 1GHz processor, and comes in many flavors (see list ). All can run Windows XP and Linux. We are using the eBox-3300 (256MB RAM) and the eBox-3310-L2 (512MB RAM, 2xLAN, 2xRS-232).
- buy an eBox.
- We highly recommend you also buy a 4GB+ industrial Compact Flash card; they support much more read/write cycles than the usual cards.
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That's it, you now have a working eBox with a recent kernel. The command free tells you that it is running with 23MB of RAM; the command df tells your that you're using 384MB of hard-drive.
Using the Linksys NLSU2
This is the old method we used. The NSLU2 is not manufactured anymore, and the eBox 3300 is better and cheaper hardware. This device is initially a used to share USB hard drives onto a Windows network. A community of enthusiasts have ported several flavors of Linux onto that platform, turning it into a small computer.
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