I'm looking to have a machine running at home all the time, and I'd like it to be a power efficient box. At a minimum I'd want it running a UNIX-like operating system and sshd so that if I want to turn on any of my other machines, I can do so by broadcasting the appropriate magic packet from this small system I'm thinking about. (If only my Netgear router would let me route incoming packets to the broadcast address I could wake my machines up without using a go-between.)
I've never looked into this side of PC hardware before. Even the 65W TDP AMD processor is overkill. Can I make a diskless system that uses some sort of nvram for primary storage? No video hardware needed...
I've never looked into this side of PC hardware before. Even the 65W TDP AMD processor is overkill. Can I make a diskless system that uses some sort of nvram for primary storage? No video hardware needed...