[mythtv-users] Power Saving Frontend Ideas

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Apr 14 11:40:04 UTC 2008


On Apr 13, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Rick Hudson wrote:
>>
>
> I have a linux firewall running on an Axiomtek SBC. It's only 400MHz  
> or
> something but it comes in a tiny case that looks like an Ethernet  
> switch and
> uses less than 10W (might be as low as 5).

For a firewall I like the little Netgear ProSafe units. Cheap, low- 
power and you even get a hardware VPN.

You might also look at the "slugs", aka: Linksys NSLU2. 5 or 6 watts  
and you can run a full Linux Distro:

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

beww



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