Gigabyte Brix Linux Drivers

Mar 11, 2016  Looking for a distro that might work on the Gigabyte BRIX we just picked up. It's a GB-BSi5-6200. So far I've tried OpenSuSE (Stable and Tumbleweed) &a. Looking for a distro that might work on the Gigabyte BRIX we just picked up. Intel would be proactive and introduce the necessary changes to linux? Yes, Intel has the driver, but you do not expect an older driver to work on.

Very few products excite us enough to request the manufacturer to provide us with an engineering sample or demo model. The Intel NUC category has been particularly interesting as it provides us with an insight into where the traditional casual / home use desktop market might end up.

The ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) for PCs was originally championed by VIA Technologies with their nano-ITX (12cm x 12cm) and pico-ITX (10 cm x 7.2cm) boards. Zotac was one of the first to design a custom UCFF motherboard (size between nano-ITX and pico-ITX) for the based on AMD Brazos.

The motherboard was approximately 10cm x 10cm. Intel made this motherboard size a 'standard' with the introduction of the Intel NUC boards in. GIGABYTE took the NUC concept and designed their own board and chassis in the BRIX lineup. At Computex 2013, Ian talked to them and that an AMD Kabini based version was also in the works. Last month, at IDF, we had the of the Haswell-based BRIX units.

The interesting aspect of the Haswell BRIX is the fact that it has become available for purchase prior to the Intel Haswell NUC.

I work my computers pretty hard and after about three years I usually find something is dying. If it isn't the hard disk or DVD drive it's generally something else that has finally worn out. My current Compaq 1040 is more than four years old and has been a problem for quite a while.

I'm not well off any more and the budget limits me to between $300 - $400 Aussie dollars. I also find having a laptop on the desk and trying to use it with a dual monitor setup is a real pain – so when I could not put the inevitable off any more, I bought a low end Brix. I always buy low end processors. I don't play computer games. I browse the web, play music and music videos, write simple programs (usually BASH scripts), and do a lot of photo editing and a little video editing. Much of the last two are either from the command line or using scripts I have customised for my own requirements. And of course there's the usual hack work.

Lots of labeling tweaks • Added magnitude key at the top of each chart • Added 'field edition' version (white text over black background) • Optimized the PDF file (12MB instead of 50MB). Here you can see a Beginners and smaller telescope owners who find this atlas over cluttered - should check out my of deep-sky atlas ('TheSky' which is designed for A4). The second revision (jun 2017) features the following updates: • A fix of numerous labeling, indexing, position errors. World atlas pdf download.

I design some web sites for businesses and maintain some blogs and do the usual word processing and spreadsheeting. I also only buy cheap computers. A couple of weeks into living with the BRIX and there was one annoying problem. The thing doesn't shutdown. When choosing to shutdown, everything seems fine, then it simply reboots. It was not happening initially but after a Linux kernel update it started happening.

A bit of googling shows it is not only me with this issue, although it is not clear if it is happening with all processor variations. At any rate, with the Brix BACE-3150 it is happening.