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Stories and comments across the archive that link to soekris.com.

Stories · 4

  1. Ask Slashdot: Enterprise-Grade Linux Networking Hardware?

    Hardware · Networking · · posted by timothy · from the 12-linksys-boxes-and-a-disposable-intern dept. · 140 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "In spite of Linux's great networking capabilities, there seems to be a shortage of suitable hardware for building an enterprise-grade networking platform. I've had success on smaller projects with the Soekris offerings but they are suboptimal for large-scale deployment due to their single-board non-redundant design (eg., single power supply, lack of backup 'controller'). What is the closest thing to a modular Linux-capable platform with some level of hardware redundancy and substantial bus/backplane throughput?"

  2. Recommendations for a Single Board Computer?

    Ask · Hardhack · · posted by Cliff · from the small-but-capable dept. · 49 comments
    Lardmonster asks: "I'm looking for a Single Board Computer that's reasonably spec'd for performance, but low power (from a Wattage perspective!). I'd like to build a small machine to host NFS/Samba shares, store email, and run Slimserver. There are some nice-looking boards from Soekris, but they max out at 266MHz and have limited RAM. Can anyone recommend similar devices that are low-power, up to 500MHz, with IDE connector and have a SO-DIMM slot? Compatibility with i386 binaries is not necessary. Many places sell similar boards, but only in large quantities, and the prices are generally prohibitively high when they're publicized at all."

  3. Announcing WiFiBSD

    Bsd · Wireless · · posted by michael · from the little-yellow-different dept. · 40 comments
    flynn_nrg writes "WifiBSD is a minimalistic version of FreeBSD based on the 5.x branch. WifiBSD is aimed for wireless routers running on embedded devices such as boards from soekris.com. In addition to the wi driver WifiBSD includes support for Atheros's 802.11b/g and 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Chipsets. The latest version of WifiBSD can be found here."

  4. Build Your Own Weather Balloon

    Hardware · Hardware · · posted by michael · from the if-it's-wet,-it's-raining dept. · 120 comments
    Leeji writes "Here is an interesting read about one geek's project to build and launch a weather balloon. The flight recorder is a small $200 Soekris Engineering computer running Bering Linux. It also uses a Garmin GPS, HAM packet radio, an automated Aiptek Pencam Trio digital camera, army surplus batteries, and lots of geek duct tape."