On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:37:17AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ Nicola Bernardini [2012-07-20 05:42 +0200]: > > > > I gave up on my NSLU 2 which seems irremediably broken (my guess is that > > the RAM is botched) and I would like to buy another NAS in that price > > range or whereabouts. And of course, I would like to be able to run a > > full Debian system on it. Debian Squeeze would be fine, but I can > > install Woody if need be. What do you think is a good buy? > > The solidrun Cubox is nice hardware: > http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox/ > > Available new for $140, with real SATA (external drive) and > world-class tiny. Non-free Vivante GPU could be annoying for media > purposes but irrelvant for NAS-type activities.
In fact, I was already thinking of taking advantage of the hdmi interface to make it *also* be a streaming media server for my children (a must these days). Would it be annoying in that sense? > > 1Gb RAM will be an enjoyable step up from the 32MB of a SLUG :-) - > Should keep you going for quite a few years. > > I've seen one running Ubuntu already so Debian should be fine, but I > think at this moment in time you'll need to use a non-stock kernel: > http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php/Debian_on_CuBox > I'd expect that to get fixed reasonably quickly. > > Others have given plenty of sensible options - it seems we are spoiled > for choice these days. If someone wanted to summarise this lot > somewhere on the Debian Wiki, that would be useful. I take this opportunity to really thank everybody who took the time to respond. I was already thinking that, since the choice is so wide, I wanted to build a little db of all options to be able to make comparisons. I will try to do this as fast as I can (very busy these days as everybody else), and then I'll post back to have everybody check on the results. Thanks again to all! nicb -- Nicola Bernardini Scuola di Musica Elettronica Conservatorio C.Pollini Padova e-mail: n...@sme-ccppd.org http://www.conservatoriopollini.it http://www.sme-ccppd.org http://www.nicolabernardini.info GPG fingerprint = 6AE6 AF21 E160 D9B3 396E EBAC 906C CFAE 4D65 D910 Neither MS-Word nor MS-PowerPoint attachments please. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120724200933.GD9997@eeepc-1215B
