Michaelwagner Wrote: > I couldn't find a way to "stick" more memory in these, though.
...that's the dealbreaker. The device's RAM may be sufficient. 64 MB is what the Linkstation has. But the ROM is 16 MB - this has to house the Linux kernel and all its associated services. Trying to stick Perl and SlimServer on top of that wouldn't work. If there was some way to install Perl and SS on the hard drive, then maybe. Building a SlimServer server out of a gumstix platform would be fun, challenging and it could be cheap. It may not be practical - the 400 MHz CPU sounds barely OK, but keep in mind it's not an x86 processor, it's a RISC processor like those used in PocketPCs. It does meet the requirement for fanless/silent operation though, but its main advantage, incredibly small size, is largely wasted if you use a 3.5" drive for music storage that's 3X its width... The ideal silent server is made of a fanless mini-ITX board. They have loads of computing power and use standard RAM and hard drives. They are pricey though. I believe there are other "computers on a board" that may be suitable. I'm thinking of embedded platforms that typically use AMD Geode processors. Google shows "SOM" (system-on-module) and PC/104 platforms. You can use more standard computer hardware with these, and one of the SOMs supports up to 512 MB of RAM... -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23496 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
