I'm a little unusual :D in that i'm using CSOS for somewhat more than it was intended, having 1 SATA and 3 USB (a mixture of ext4 and NTFS) drives permanently connected to the WB plus a couple of other USBs that get connected on occasion for backups which are all then shared over my network.
Effectively, the WB has become a NAS replacement as well as LMS server and player. My main motivation for doing this is the very low energy requirements compared to running other alternatives, and in general I am very happy with its performance for all these tasks. The long term costs of running this compared to a 386 alternative, more than justified buying the Wandboard. For me, having Samba / NFS mounting available through the Web GUI is of little real consequence as I can just as easily run up a SSH session, although at times it would be handy. BUT, for others who may not so comfortable with Linux, I think this could be a much more important feature. For reference I'd suggest having a look at what Vortexbox does. From reading VB users posts here and over at the VB forum (and having spent a few months using it myself), many really appreciate the ease with which it can be set up through the Web interface with little knowledge of the underlying OS. They have a lot of novice users who care little for learning stuff like terminal commands to mount a network drive. For CSOS, i'm sure the target user base must be very similar to that of VB - if you are going to the effort of creating a whole hardware & software system, why limit it to those who have the knowledge (or are prepared to learn)? I'm sure we all want as many CSOS uses as possible, be they plug'n'players or geeks like us :) I realise making all this functionality takes considerable efforts, and judging the best direction for those efforts is not my call. But I really do want to see CSOS progress and pull in plenty of new people along the way. Just wish I could be more help! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slackhead's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13963 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
