Or for servers...the myriad of "single board computers" can work quite well :) At home I've got an oDroid U3 for my primary server running bind, apache, mysql, a minecraft server (using half of the allocated memory of the board,) freepbx, asterisk, a mozilla sync server, vpn server, nfs server, owncloud, and emoncms. Works beautifully, fairly inexpensive setup (just the board, power supply, SD card, and an external USB SSD,) and is super power efficient :) I think the entire setup was about a hundred bucks. I do rsnapshot backups to a local USB stick, and weekly offsite backups to an encrypted external hard drive. What's nice about it too is you can use the CPU scheduler to dynamically turn cores on and off based on usage, so it normally sits there with just two cores powered on, but can kick up the other two if needed. At this point it's been up for about 2 months following the last reboot for kernel patches. myers@countryside:~$ free -h total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2.0G 1.3G 663M 0B 29M 305M -/+ buffers/cache: 1.0G 998M Swap: 0B 0B 0B myers@countryside:~$ uptime 09:54:35 up 55 days, 17:34, 1 user, load average: 0.70, 0.45, 0.37 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org