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Freenas is cool, but for many reasons I'd rather go with debian. Too bad there isn't a debian distribution designed for compact flash installs (low writes, temp logging, readonly mounts, etc).

What really want:

A passively cooled, low power, x86 or arm compatible system, with serial IO, keyboad, video, mouse, ethernet, and a slot for memory, all for around $50.

Is this possible? Should be! Hmmm, just noticed that the Linksys NSLU2 price has been reduced at Amazon.com, its now only $75 and comes with free shipping. Check out the details at mytechdeals.blogspot.com.

Here's some links I found related to the subject of installing Debian on CF:

http://gate-bunker.p6.msu.ru/~berk/router.html

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=7568

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2315885