hmm. I saw somewhere it was characterized as highly hackable

WiseWeasel · on May 31, 2012

I'd get something like this instead, and put Debian on it:

xxqs · on June 1, 2012

I'm currently using two types of devices:

-- 10" Acer AspireOne netbooks. They are cheap, and Ubuntu works flawlessly (true before 12.04)

-- ALIX boards from pcengines.ch. They are even cheaper, and low-power, and with RS-232 console port. Perfect if you don't need CPU power.

but for the cases when I need to do packet trace on a Gigabit link, I need to make sure the traffic is low enough for the acer netbook to catch up