Sorry to burst your bubble, but there's more than one VIA Eden... and they all come in multiple flavors of slow :lol: http://via.com.tw/en/products/processors/specs.jsp Look at the 2nd chart down from the top; header is VIA Eden ESP. That's my best guess as to what CPU we're dealing with. ...and if ...

Yes, it's x86... VIA CPUs are actually descendants of the Cyrix CPUs... which isn't saying much, because Cyrix's processor design was so bad that it actually put the company out of business.

Oh cool.

Also: IMADERP

I've seen squashfs mentioned before... just never really knew what it was.

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It's ~3:20 AM here in beautiful Raleigh, NC... I think it's time for bed see ya'll in the morning.

It is an Esprit 300-TCE... their website is here: http://www.sourceforterminals.com/ The 300-TCE has been superseded by a newer model, the 300-TCE/G. Unfortunately, I have been able to find out very little about either one... basically what's on that website is what I know. The fellow I'm buying thi...

Pardon my n00bishness, but a linky to this Wary 098 would be helpful. ...and that CPU's a touch more than 1W :wink: could be as much as 7W :lol: but that's only if it's actually a full 1GHz! EDIT: I forgot to mention in my first post, but I'm pretty sure that this thin client has no ACPI capability....

Hi! I'm starhawk and I'll be your "weird n00b trying to do something strange" tonight. :D H'okay. I'm --get this-- trying to convert a thin client into a proper desktop PC. I'll have a VIA Eden CPU of speed somewhere between 600MHz and 1GHz. (Unfortunately, the company that made the thin c...