Hello everyone, Just heard about the WD challenge today from a podcast and decided to throw in a couple of thoughts.
>From what I understand, the system behind the project should be lightweight and simply configurable. That is why I wanted to propose running the system off of a RaspberryPi port of TinyCore Linux. In case you haven't heard about it, it's a light linux distro that runs completely from RAM while software and persistent storage can be stored on a separate mount (WD drive in this case). The fact that the system is initially read from an SD card in read-only mode and copied into RAM makes it safe to use in case of a power loss. If you want to learn more, you can go to http://www.tinycorelinux.net for info. As for the project itself, I have successfully set up a running instance of piCore with Apache+PHP and it runs great on a first gen RPi model B. Boot times are around 15 seconds, RAM usage is about 100 MB. I have also written a blog post describing the setup process at http://ska.ee/posts/2015/2015-12/2015-12-07_philecms_picore_eng TinyCore is highly configurable through text files, there is a package manager available, the only thing I see lacking in terms of security is the ability to update different packages automatically. Regards, Artjom
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