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PC Engines
The PC Engines ALIX series of system boards gives OEMs a higher performance replacement for the WRAP series of system boards.
Applications: Thin clients, kiosks, industrial user interface, wireless routers, firewalls, special purpose network devices...
CPU: 433 (LX700) or 500 MHz (LX800) AMD Geode LX CPU - cache = 64KB instruction + 64KB data + 128KB L2 - integrated crypto accelerator
DRAM: 128 or 256 MB DDR SDRAM (333 or 400 MHz clock)
Storage: Operating system and application stored on CompactFlash card (not included).
Power: Surf the web on about 5W of 12V DC power using ALIX.1C as a thin client !
Expansion: LPC bus for adding serial ports, ISA style I/O, GPIO etc. I2C bus for user interface, software lock devices etc.
Connectivity:1 to 3 Ethernet channels (Via VT6105M), 2 or 1 miniPCI slots (cards not included), 1 serial port (console).
Models:
| Model | CPU | DRAM | LAN | miniPCI | PCI | USB | other | BIOS | size |
| alix1e | LX800 | 256MB | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | VGA, audio, PS/2, LPT, GPIO | Award | miniITX |
| alix2d2 | LX800 | 256MB | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | tinyBIOS | 6x6" | |
| alix2d13 | LX800 | 256MB | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | add battery, I2C, COM2, internal USB header | tinyBIOS | 6x6" |
| alix3d2 | LX800 | 256MB | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | tinyBIOS | 100x160mm | |
| alix3d3 | LX800 | 256MB | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | VGA, audio | Award | 100x160mm |
| alix6f2 | LX800 | 256MB | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | miniPCI express | tinyBIOS | 6x6" |
Software: Operating system and application software to be supplied by customer...
FreeBSD
FreeBSD (on older versions, may need to disable USB 2.0 in BIOS, or disable the EHCI driver; FreeBSD 7.x works ok; FreeBSD 8.x may require disabling ACPI)
FreeNAS (use embedded version, Physdiskwrite to write compressed image to CF card).
Monowall (FreeBSD based, use version 1.3, use Physdiskwrite to write compressed image to CF card)
pfSense (FreeBSD based)
STYX (FreeBSD based Secure Internet Appliances, in German)
Linux
AstLinux - Asterisk centric Linux with firewall and VPN support
CentOS - prepared image and instructions
gOS 3 Gadgets
fli4l one disk router (in German)
IPCop firewall (also see EmbCop and IPcop Forum - registration required for prepared images)
IPFire firewall
LEAF Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall
Meshlium (wireless mesh system based on Voyage)
OpenWRT (working with Kamikaze version)
- installation procedure
Ubuntu Linux - German HOW-TO for CF installation
Voyage Linux (slimmed down Debian) (*)
Xubuntu Linux (customer reported success with 8.04).
Zeroshell
NetBSD
NetBSD (versions 4, 5)
OpenBSD
OpenBSD (X11 and audio support in 4.3-current)
flashdist OpenBSD installer
flashrd OpenBSD installer
Commercial
DD-WRT
Ikarus OS
Microsoft Windows XP Home (ALIX.1D / ALIX.3D3)
Microsoft Windows XP Embedded (*)
Mikrotik RouterOS
Siam Embedded StarOS
Vyatta
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