On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, David Given wrote:
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David Given wrote:
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It arrived yesterday. I've done a decent write-up and some benchmarks:
http://www.cowlark.com/2009-04-15-sheevaplug
Short summary: larger than you'd think, the preloaded Ubuntu is broken,
satisfyingly fast.
Awesome write-up David. Helps a lot. I called mine greenmachine :-)
Having never used Ubuntu/Debian for more than an hour in gui mode only, I
have to say that I did not realize how broken the install was. Mine is up
and serving it's first web site, so I am happy for the moment. It is also
acting as a dns slave zone and is accepting mail. Seems to be faster than
the toshiba laptop it is destined to replace in the future. Forum posts
list 2 watts as the typical power consumption, so I think low power is
also going to be a real selling point.
I could not get the kernel to see the usb wireless adapter, but maybe it
will see a wired usb e-net adapter. That can act as eth1 for the other
side of the firewall. I also thought making the second interface on chip
switchable to support powerline ethernet might expand it's usefulness.
I will merge info from your article with what I have found on openplug.org
and look into a better install. I think I need a dev-dev box. Would be too
sad to shut the first one down to experiment.
-steve
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