Re:Single Board Computers Introduced in 2017
by thenewwazoo on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @12:21PM
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You may be interested in UBNT’s ERLite 3. It runs a fork of VyOS on MIPS, and is a really nice product. I’ll never build my own network box again (and pfSense has ceased to exist in my universe).
Re:Single Board Computers Introduced in 2017
by cmcginty on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @04:55PM
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I came here to say this! There is also a newer (cheaper) ERX, but some of the specs are not as good.
Re:Single Board Computers Introduced in 2017
by TheCowboy on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:47PM
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I can recommend and own a SBC/router made by https://www.gl-inet.com/
I have the GL-MT300-A and it's actually an upgrade over my older router. It runs OpenWRT, and has enough power to run a couple extra services. At the time of purchase, it seemed like the best deal (~$30) for the feature set it had.
They have a few different models with different options depending on what you need. They also seem responsive to questions on their support forums, and have their products available via Amazon if you want it faster.
I almost bought an Espressobin, but English-language websites only had the 1GB version and I just couldn't figure out Taobao to try and order the bigger one.
At this point I'm probably going to get a PC Engines APU 2 board, which is a quad-core AMD Geode processor w/ 4 GB of RAM. I can get it with a 60GB mSATA drive, a case, a wifi miniPCI board, and all the wiring for external wifi antennas for $243 shipped. That's a little steep but the other advantage is that the x86-64 architecture should make OS support easier, unlike all these little ARM boards that get one hacked-up kernel release and no updates after that.