gharris999;385502 Wrote: > Would you mind elaborating on your experience a bit? > > Are you using the desktop or the server edition of Ubuntu?
Desktop. I was worried about fitting server on the CF card. gharris999;385502 Wrote: > Did you have to do anything special to succeed with the CF card? I had > tried this setup with an 8 gig CF card and I gave up out of frustration > at how slow the CF card was. I ended up putting the OS on a 2.5" sata > laptop drive that I secured in the optical drive bay. Was I just being > too impatient with the CF card? Or did I just happen to get a > particularly slow one? Based on what I'd read elsewhere, I bought a fast UDMA card. Here's what I bought: http://www.adorama.com/ICDDPCUDMA4G.html?sid=1232121089438399 I notice no performance issues with running machine, which I'm doing headless, using Free NX, a great remote desktop app (much better than VNC). gharris999;385502 Wrote: > Also, where will your WindPC live? In a closet or out in the open as > part of the decor? Do you feel that it's quiet enough to live with out > in the open? I have this in the closet where I keep my cable modem and router. While it's not silent, it's pretty darn quiet. I think it as quiet as my former Synology NAS. My ears are pretty shot on the high end, so I'm not a great determiner of this.... however, others consider this very quiet. -- kennyschiff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kennyschiff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11363 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58323 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
