Joshua, don’t know if you know this already or not, but you’re not constrained by cases made specifically for mini-ITX boards. They fix just fine into larger micro-ATX or full-sized ATX cases too. I have one of mine in a Coolermaster Stacker case. Might be a bit larger than what you had in mind, I expect 
(Which reminds me … I should see if the 2.6.18-pre kernel includes a fix for the broken VIA SATA support from 2.6.17 …)
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I’ve put a copy of Nathan Caldwell’s ebuild for slab into my developer overlay. This is only a temporary arrangement, until someone more interested in desktops (I just use them to access servers) steps up and takes ownership. It’s just that, like many folk, I’ve been very impressed with the demos of slab in particular, and SuSE’s latest desktop release in general, and I wanted to have a play myself
As a replacement menu, it works great for me. It works so well, I’ve removed the default GNOME menu from the panel. Having my favourite apps right there when I click is something I find much more usable, and if you want to go hunting for a rarely-used app, the interface feels very natural.
But, in its current form, there are a few problems:
- The ‘Recently Used Apps’ panel is always blank.
- The ‘Control Center’ only shows two options. There is work going on to sort this out, by providing an ebuild for SuSE’s gcontrol app, but this isn’t ready for use yet.
- The ‘Install Software’ button does nothing. Presumably it’s trying to launch SuSE’s package manager. It should be simple enough to patch it to launch (say) PortHole instead.
I guess what someone really needs to do is to pop a copy of SuSE’s desktop in a VMWare machine, so that they can compare the experience against what we have for Gentoo atm, and fix things to match.
Any volunteers?
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I’ve just added a copy of the gi8k Gnome applet to my desktop overlay. This handy little applet sits in your Gnome panel, and displays the current temperature of the CPU. It can also display fan speed, and can be used to make the fans kick in sooner than the BIOS would.
All you need to do is to make sure that you have the i8k module compiled for your kernel.
Now, if only I could get suspend-to-RAM working on this machine …
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