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Low-Profile Video Cards?
Catherine Ellerman asks: "I'm after a couple of REALLY low-profile video cards to put in a firewall/router. Motherboards with built in video and networking are available but the reason why I don't really want to go out and buy a new motherboard is because a lot of the processing power would be wasted. Back in my parts store I've a couple of 120Mhz Pentium motherboards that will do the job nicely and a friend of mine helped me source the low-profile NICs (at just over an inch high they're hardly noticeable). All I need now is someone to help me find a couple of low-profile video cards and get the bugs out of the latest kernel."
... and get the bugs out of the latest kernel."
Why not use an OS that doesn't have a buggy kernel?
OpenBSD is a popular choice for firewall machines. As the perl folks say, there is more than one way to do it.
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