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Once my original Mini-ITX project was completed I finally had a chance to sit back and use the computer. Knowing how simple my needs were, the Mini-ITX project computer was orginally designed to be as basic and quiet as possible. This meant no hard drive, no extra accessories- just a stripped down system. While this suited my needs well at the time, its lack of versatility soon became an issue.
Once my original Mini-ITX project was completed I finally had a chance to sit back and use the computer. After a couple weeks of general internet browsing, emailing, and so forth, I was able to get a better understanding of the system and a feel for its design. Knowing how simple my needs were, the Mini-ITX project computer was orginally designed to be as basic and quiet as possible. This meant no hard drive, no extra accessories- just a stripped down system. While this suited my needs well at the time, its lack of versatility soon became an issue. This meant it was back to the drawing board for a retooling of the Mini-ITX project computer. The changes include a new case, operating system and boot device, along with improved cooling. The new operating systems were Slax and MEPISLite- the first edition booted Puppy Linux off of a USB flash drive.
These little critters have all kinds of uses, and they're a lot of fun to hack on. I've been dinking around with a Mini-ITX box and Debian, trying to build a email/web surf/balance checkbook machine that boots up in under 30 seconds. Creating a simplified user interface is easy, it's just a tweaked IceWM. But getting the boot time down is more difficult. I think something like this would find a nice little market niche, because I hear from a lot of users who want something they can fire up quickly and do a couple of tasks, then shut it down and go do something else. They don't want to dink around with long boots and elaborate shutdown sequences.
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