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Axentra Rumba Server - Home Do-It-All Box

Posted by michael on from the looking-for-completely-silent-operation dept.

JigSaw writes "OSNews has an exclusive article on a new Linux-based server appliance product -- the first in the family -- the Axentra Rumba Server. The product is to be launched soon, but details of it have being leaked out already: The device has a mini ITX mobo, VIA C3 800 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hdd, USB 1.1, 2 LAN ports and in 1 WAN port (extra Wi-Fi USB device required). The device is useful as an Internet Gateway (DNS, IP filtering, Port forwarding, NAT firewall), as a network service (web server, file server, WebDAV, IMAP/SMTP, Samba, Content/Spam Filtering, photo album). It has an embedded web server so you can administer it via your web browser. It is compatible with Linux, Macs and Windows."

3 of 168 comments (clear)

  1. compatable with windows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well im not buying it then :).

  2. SME Server (a.k.a. e-Smith) ??? by ivi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is it just me, or does this thing sound exactly like the e-Smith server/Internet gateway from a few years back?

    It ran a modified Red Hat, was an "Internet appliance" turn-key CD-ROM for any recent x86 box, & did all the fun router/web server/email server/file server stuff with just a simple web interface.

    What's old is new again, I suppose.

  3. Re:not too exciting by GiMP · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Firewire is very useful for servers, actually.
    It has several uses:
    1. Cheapest hot-swappable ide/raid solution
    2. Cheapest hot-swappable scsi-raid solution (after something around 200-400gigabytes)
    3. Replacement for firewire and endorsed by Oracle:
    http://oss.oracle.com/projects/firewire/