Shuttle launches $199 KPC linux box, $99 barebones kit

I'll take one, blue please

I like them a lot, but I really need a CD burner in my computer. Even in a cheap-ass surf box. How else am I going to burn those Linux ISOs? :-) The shuttle comes without a CD player or burner, which makes it unusable for me. Too bad because they look great!

Quoting:Now else am I going to burn those Linux ISOs?

Not possible to have a CD-burner connected via USB, like USB floppy drives? If not, I hereby patent it, and release the patent in the public domain!

I have a 40x USB CD/DVD burner right next to me. Cost me US$70 and works faster than the one I built into my desktop.

Add a couple of NICs (or a NIC with multiple connections), and IPCop/Smoothwall/WTFever, and you've a nice little firewall for a lot cheaper than a "real" firewall from a vendor like SonicWALL, Watchguard or Linksys/Cisco.

rijelkentaurus, take a look at one-NIC NAT. It uses an interface alias on the firewall, so the NIC is talking on two different sub-nets using the same Ethernet. I had one set up for three years on cable Internet, and speed tests between a one-NIC firewall and no firewall showed negligible slowdown. And really, what's an extra twenty seconds when downloading a Knoppix ISO?

Quoting: Not possible to have a CD-burner connected via USB

pardon, you are joking?

@tracyanne: Yes, he was :-)

In fact, I was not joking, but asking. Too lazy to find out for myself - that's what fellow LXer members are for, isn't it?

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/sarcasm

@gus3, thanks, I'll look into that.