From day one this system has been targeted as an embedded platform and from what I'm seeing it works fine provided the end user dosn't push the platform with memory hungry apps.

I intend to use the EFIKA to replace my ageing Pegasos 1, which is my sole internet facing server. Surprisingly my Peg1 has been running fine for over 2 years almost non stop (only during a power outage or two) hosting about 5 domains for web and mail traffic.

Any platform that replaces my peg1 will need to be able to perform the same functions, the good thing is that these apps don't push the CPU a great deal. (Apart from one, see below)

Currently the main applications/services would be

SMTP
IMAP using SSL
Spamassassin
Apache
Asterisk VoIP


While the Pegasos 1 was a very power conservative platform, I'm expecting to see some minor pay back from the efika in the use of space and watts :)

Here is the uptime counter from my pegasos 1.......I'm super impressed with even the pegasos 1 from a reliability point of view....although as we know it was not without its flaws

fprowse@linux-wlg-ppc:~$ uptime
09:52:11 up 311 days, 14:59, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00

Purchased a new 40GB 2.5 inch hard disk for the EFIKA and mounted it on the chassis.

Followed the instructions to boot the mother board using the DI installer from efika.info without any success. The EFIKA was unable to recognise either my 1GB flash disk or my 512MB flash disk.

Tried booting the EFIKA installed with my old Matrox G450, which while recognised by the x86 emulator built into the open firmware was not recongised by the DI kernel. A quick trip into work to retrive my Radeon 9200 and this is recognised fine. Usually I install most of my production OS's from the serial console and trying this from the EFIKA for install didn't work as expected, turns out I need to read a bit further down the manual, and ensure I use console=ttyPSC0 (I previously have just used ttyS0, so my fault)

I ended up booting the EFIKA from TFTP which worked 100% successfully and debian installed as per the instructions provided :)

Received the EFIKA almost totally out of the blue one morning. Was a real surprise to get this board down all the way to New Zealand as I though it might take a little longer than that to receive. Also I'm fairly certain that the efika arrived almost 3(or is it 4 years already) years to the date of getting my pegasos 1.

The packaging was good, especially noted the MAC address stamped on the outside of the packaging. The A4 printed instruction manual was more than enough to get started and looks very professional, even better than the previous Pegasos boards.

The main obsticle that most people will note is the non-standard hole pattern for mounting the board into any commercially available cases, given that the end user is embedded applications I'm not surprised (or bothered) as they would certainly produce their own case for each application.