On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:28 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
 
> 
> They're kind of big. The gizmosphere is a better size.
> 

I don’t think there’s enough memory on Gizmo (1GB?).  And no slots, so the result would be kind of brittle. 

I’ve had a small AMD Family 14 system from Foxconn running Linux for my kids for a while now (many months).  I bought it at NewEgg but I don’t think the exact model is still available.  It’s maybe just a little bigger than a paperback novel.  No serial port, though. 

See: 

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/ProductDetail.aspx?T=NanoPC&U=en-us0000022

If I remember right, the NIC is an RTL8111 (variant of gigE RTL8169).

They have new models in a similar form factor.  But I doubt they have a variant that sports an Intel NIC and serial ports.

No experience with this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101145