I have a number of VIA EPIA mini-ITX systems I use for Kiosks under Gentoo Linux. You're pretty well on your own determining what parts you need to build them, but you need so little, it's not hard. The board, RAM, and HDD and that's it. I have noticed they can be power supply sensitive, though. The board uses so little power, you sometimes need to add a power-hungry drive to the system to get it to boot. The most luck I had are units with external power bricks rather than internal transformers. Quite a few local retailers don't deal with the VIA EPIA's since I have heard some complaints about the local EPIA distributor and some retailers refuse to deal with them. Online retails are probably easier to deal with when it comes to mini-ITX. http://www.koonline-inc.com seems to have good selection and fair prices in Canada. Peter On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 08:47 -0500, Spencer Cheng wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007, at 13:43, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > > > While I have no experience with mini-ITX, I do with RB Computing. > > > > Email them. I've had good results with Rob and Chris. They > > researched > > things for me and got back to me relatively promptly. > > > > I hear good thing about Rob and Chris from friends which is why I > even go there. Since they are not handling the customers directly any > more, they really should tell their front desk people to go and ask > people in the back for more help when they don't understand the > question (rather than tell the potential customer to look up all the > parts needed to assemble a mini-ITX system from scratch).