The point was the "distributed" projects of replacing cloud services like Facebook, Twitter, etc with "always on" 1w servers in the home. That was in the article... I thought that the idea of replacing the "cloud" with many 1w small servers could be a MHVLUG project thing. By distributing service(s) across many locations and members, we could then have our own distributed development platform. I guess it would only work on a massive scale ( 2,000 - 1 Million ) not 12 modules
Joe On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sunday 28 March 2010 22:49:00 Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > ... > > The device in question can be found at http://www.openplug.org/ > > > > So my question is, how much interest is there in such a project/device? > > 1.2 GHz ARM Processor > 512MB RAM > 512MB Flash > 1 USB2.0 port > 1 Gigabit port > > Things this hardware is generally not optimized for: > Web server > Backup server > Databases > Email server > Firewall > > Things I could see a box like this doing: > Embedded web server applications > DHCP server > Webcam image capture/forwarding > Print server > Temperature or other sensor monitoring/forwarding > * An "always on" SSH point, from which you can wake up other > machines via Wake-On-Lan > > > I see this as a special-purpose machine, similar to the Linksys NSLU2 boxes > except with more RAM and Flash, and a faster processor. > > -- Chris > > -- > > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Apr 7 - Nagios > May 5 - Crack and LLVM > Jun 2 - Android >
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