[Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Tue Mar 2 12:27:46 EST 2010


On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at 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.langhoff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:19 AM, David Leeming
>> <david at 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!
>>
>>
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