As there has been some discussion about the Iomega iConnect product I though it might be beneficial to share my experience with a similar product; the Seagate DockStar. It has similar specs but less RAM (128 MB vs 256 MB) [1]. I believe it is mentioned on the FB wiki already and I think it is a great platform to do testing on as the product has been discontinued and can be had for as little as $30 [2]. Installing Debian on these devices is rather straight forward (for this audience) [3]. I have a few that are used for different tasks, e.g., media streaming, OpenVPN, and headless low power BitTorrent client. My conclusion at this point is that a FreedomBox that seeks to do more than 1 task well would be much more suited to next gen plug hardware with a 2 GHz processor [4] (and 512 MB+ of RAM) as opposed to the 1.2 GHz variety common on today's devices. Further empirical inquiry may be beneficial but anecdotally having a current plug serve static HTML with nginx, download files using transmission, and act as an rsync target server is not advisable...
[1] http://plugapps.com/index.php5/Portal:Hardware [2] They originally retailed for about $100 and periodically go on special. [3] http://wiki.daviddarts.com/Debian_on_the_Seagate_Dockstar [4] http://www.marvell.com/company/press_kit/MarvellPlugComputer30_PressRelease_1_5_2010.pdf -- Jonathan Zeppettini // http://jz.bz // +1 514 291 7800 //// _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
