MrSinatra;218525 Wrote: > > SS already has a linux flavor. just make the fat device run enough of > linux to run SS as it now exists. is that such a hard thing to do? > and SS will have local SB access, it won't need to TCP/IP to the SB.
"enough of linux" would be pretty much what existing NAS boxes do. The catch is that for a lot of people a low-end NAS box is going to be too slow to be usable. There just isn't enough CPU or RAM to make it feasible. So increase CPU to a 1Ghz x86 and toss half a meg of RAM in it... and now you are running a cheap PC or laptop... with all the costs associated with that in heat. electricity and dissipation... TCP/IP is cheap. I've run 9-port firewalls on a 386 with no real CPU load. Remember TCP/IP is ancient and goes back to some painfully slow by current standards machines. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
