https://andrej.dundovic.com.hr/enSun, 04 Aug 2024 21:40:16 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://andrej.dundovic.com.hr/posts/installing-centos-7-on-pc-engines-apu2c4/Andrej Dundović<div><a class="reference external image-reference" href="https://andrej.dundovic.com.hr/images/alix/DSC_8487.JPG"> <img alt="/images/alix/DSC_8487.thumbnail.JPG" src="https://andrej.dundovic.com.hr/images/alix/DSC_8487.thumbnail.JPG"> </a> <p>After giving up of running Raspberry Pi as my home server due to its instability and poor performance in cases relevant for me, I was looking for another solution which would also be reasonable priced, yet which would provide stability and strengths in typical home server tasks. Under these tasks I count a backup facility (NAS, Network-attached storage), multimedia server (photos and music), services for simple automation projects and so on. Then I heard some stories about the incredible robustness of ALIX machines which work in inaccessible mountain areas for years and years without problems. The prices of those devices are also about right (~150 euros) and they are based on AMD's embedded CPUs, x86_64 which means running standard GNU/Linux distributions without restrictions. Therefore, I bought one. PC Engines ALIX APU2C4: 4-core 1 GHz CPU (AMD <a class="reference external" href="https://www.amd.com/en/system/files?file=2017-06/g-series-soc-product-brief.pdf">GX-412TC</a>), 4 GB RAM, mSATA SSD, ... from <a class="reference external" href="https://de.varia-store.com/hersteller/70-pc-engines.html">Varia-store.com</a>. Just to mention that the power consumption of the device is ridiculously low - only 6-12 watts.</p> <p><a href="https://andrej.dundovic.com.hr/posts/installing-centos-7-on-pc-engines-apu2c4/">Read more…</a> (3 min remaining to read)</p></div>alixcentoslinuxpc enginesserverhttps://andrej.dundovic.com.hr/posts/installing-centos-7-on-pc-engines-apu2c4/Sun, 19 Nov 2017 12:20:01 GMT