[Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

[John Watlington]

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
> <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!
>>>
>>>
>>> m
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