It would be interesting to hear what the remaining hurdles are. The Kirkwood ARM processor in the guruplug should be well supported by the current Fedora release --- this may be mostly a matter of moving to an F12 base.
My main concern with the guruplug would be the external USB disks (overheating or disappearing). The same hardware should be available in a NAS (networked attached storage unit), wrapped around a hard drive in an enclosure --- the Marvell ARM is a popular choice. We have good relations with Marvell, and have been encouraging them to get support for their ARM processors upstream for several years now. wad On Mar 2, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Caroline Meeks > <carol...@solutiongrove.com> wrote: >> I was talking to Timothy Falconer who is planning deployments in >> Haiti >> and Patrick Giagnocavo founder of Zill.net our sysadmin and >> hosting company >> about this. >> Patrick suggests: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-4- >> guruplugs.aspx >> the specs on the Plus version that is $129 >> 2x Gigabit ethernet plus Wifi >> But I don't think any one has tried it yet. > > These are ARM based, right? Robert Howard @OLPCSF (on the list) has > been tackling this a bit, but there are hurdles with running XS on > ARM... > > Sameer > >> >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Martin Langhoff >> <martin.langh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:19 AM, David Leeming >>> <da...@leeming-consulting.com> wrote: >>>> Sorry if this has been asked before. The Mac Mini was tested by >>>> someone >>>> here >>>> with a watt meter and ran between 16 and 30 watts max. Very >>>> useful for >>>> solar >>>> powered locations. >>> >>> Agreed with Peter -- it'll just work, but other boxes may be >>> cheaper, >>> and most importantly, may be better suited to hot & humid >>> environments. >>> >>> Whatever you use, let us know how it goes! >>> >>> >>> m >>> -- >>> martin.langh...@gmail.com >>> mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect >>> - ask interesting questions >>> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first >>> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Server-devel mailing list >>> Server-devel@lists.laptop.org >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel >> >> >> >> -- >> Caroline Meeks >> Solution Grove >> carol...@solutiongrove.com >> >> 617-500-3488 - Office >> 505-213-3268 - Fax >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Server-devel mailing list >> Server-devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
