[geeks] ExtremeTech article about building a cheap Solaris system

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:17:30PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> With a price limit of $300, and everything being new, here is an interesting article on building a Solaris 10 (server) based on the Intel D201GLY board:
> 
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2176218,00.asp
> 
> The reason I refer to it as a (server) is the limitations of the video driver currently available for it - anything above 800x600 has too much noise to be useful as a desktop (IMHO). The author was making a cheap webserver box.
> 
> It was interesting to read the comments too, many folks couldn't get
> their brains around theidea that the CPU and cooler are included in
> the D201GLY MB. 
> 
> Thought some here might be interested...
> 
> I am still looking for a decent mini-ITX chassis for this board, no
> luck yet (I currently have it in an Antec Minuete 300 case, but I
> can't figure out how to wire the DVD and HD off the one IDE cable (the
> Antec case has the HD mounted directly under the DVD drive bay, but
> rotated 90 degrees (!), but I can't find an IDE cable with at least 12
> inches between the two device connectors... 

How long until that other board is available?