[Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

George Hunt georgejhunt at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 20:37:37 EDT 2012


I'd love to be involved in getting an arm server going.  I have a
dreamplug.  Which distro are you thinking would be a good base?

What sort of hitches? If there's discussion in the archives, I'll do
reading to get up to speed.  I might help if I knew when or who.

George

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt <georgejhunt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be
> > pressed into service in a classroom situation.  So now I'm in the market
> for
> > another toy.
>
> If you have time towork with us through some hitches, I'd recommend an
> ARM server. At this stage I'd say one of the Marvell/Globalscale
> "Plug" servers (dreamplug for example), or a trimslice.
>
> Either option will need a combination of the OS on internal SD/eMMC
> and the storage on an ext HDD (via USB probably).
>
> cheers,
>
>
> m
> --
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