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VIA are still going? I have horrible memories of dealing with their kit 20 years ago when I did digital signage, as well as Geode chips which were even worse...
by sofaofthedamned 9y ago
VIA are still going? I have horrible memories of dealing with their kit 20 years ago when I did digital signage, as well as Geode chips which were even worse...
- kbenson 9y agoDepending on need and use, the Mini-ITX systems from Via are simple and reliable. I haven't used them much in the last 6-7 years, but at a previous business we used them with a flash card to ship OpenBSD firewalls to client offices for VPN connectivity. Problems were rare (and on-board AES acceleration a decade ago was pretty cool).
- sofaofthedamned 9y agoInteresting. I remember the VIA stuff had serious graphics problems (granted it was years ago) but the Geode stuff was worse to be fair, the hardware watchdog basically prevented any GPU events at all. How times have changed.
- kbenson 9y agoWell, we didn't run GUI desktops on them, they were headless firewalls, so I can't really comment as to how well graphics works, much less 3D acceleration. We weren't running Geodes either, as IIRC that was the super low power and low performance variation and didn't match our needs.