As Craig said, the Via C3 board I have seen have all had everything
integrated on one board.  I have never looked inside the Fry's computer,
but I'm guessing that it is a mini-ITX format, which is the only thing I
have ever seen these processors on.  Here are some links that deal with
these formats.

http://www.linitx.org

A good place to go to learn more about Linux on the Via C3 processor. 
Via is not the only maker of the mini-ITX format, but they are one of
the big players.

http://www.mini-itx.com/

A site based out of the UK, this has a lot of good info as well as some
great mod work done with the mini-ITX format.  Check out the top story
here.  What a beautiful little computer.


As Alan said, these guys can be a bit on the slow side.  But not
everything needs a 2+ gHz processor, or the heat and noise that go along
with them.

Devin





On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 08:14, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 08:04, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> > On Feb 7, 2004, at 7:56 AM, Craig White wrote:
> > 
> > > ThizLinux is a chinese compilation of Linux
> > >
> > > Haven't used it. You can wipe the hard drive out and install anything
> > > you want on it (x86 based_naturally)
> > 
> > That's good to know. I was afraid that it might have issues with 
> > proprietary  drivers. Do you know anything about  the quality of the 
> > hardware? Is it better than eMachines?
> ---
> Judging by Devin's post - who obviously has more experience than I with
> these boards (my experience = 0), it would seem that...
> 
> - there are at least some variety of these boards
> 
> - the processor obviously emulates the 386/586/686 instruction set
> (exactly which I don't know - but VIA web page would have something)
> 
> - you are likely to encounter EVERYTHING integrated in chipset on the
> board, according to Devin again, hardware detection with random success
> on a per distro basis.
> 
> - better than eMachines? Is this a trick question?
> 
> Craig
> 
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