I'm glad to see this thread, because I hadn't heard of the Raspberry Pi before- way cool!
But I'm curious about the original query- what's the need for such an ultra-quiet machine? I too hate fan noise, but even when run hard I have to _try_ to hear my laptop fan. Is there a special reason you need a machine that's fanless other than noise level, or are you doing something stealthy? Keith > On 12 February 2012 15:06, green <greenfreedo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Stan Hoeppner wrote at 2012-02-11 21:15 -0600: >>> On 2/11/2012 8:09 PM, green wrote: >>> > I need a fanless mini PC; it will run Debian. It will be used in a >>> > production environment. > > Hi, > > I share your sympathies. I really hate fan noise! There are ARM > computers that run at 5 watts, and can be passively cooled.... but can > they be used as a 'desktop'? > > I've been thinking about that question a lot. The main difficulty is > that I frequently use Iceweasel and it requires a lot of memory (or, > at least, it does the way I use it), so these computers with 1 > gigabyte of RAM aren't really going to cut it. > > What I could do is use one of these ARM computers as a thin-client and > use vnc or xwindows forwarding to run Iceweasel in the cloud > somewhere. The problem with that is, for me, since I live in > Australia, I'm going to need a cloud that is hosted in Australia due > to the latency. But cloud hosting in Australia is nowhere near as > affordable as it is overseas, this is due to economies of scale and > Australian hosting is always going to be more expensive. > > So my next plan is to build a 'beowulf cluster' out of ARM computers, > and use that as my desktop. You've probably heard of Raspberry Pi? > Well that's a pretty nice system, and costs on $35, draws 3.5 watts, > but has only 256meg of RAM. I'm sure, in the not too distant future, > there'll be system's like this, at a similar price, with at least a > gig of RAM. Then I could buy 10 of them, for $350, and I'll have a > system with 10 gigabytes of RAM and drawing 35 watts. Plus a network > switch of course. > > Anyway, getting back to the original post. I actually bought a Trim > Slice. One of the first ones they rolled out. Unfortunately I haven't > been able to spend much time playing with it, although I was using it > as a VNC client for a while, plugged into a TV. It did ok. The Trim > Slice kernel has been updated since then so some time I am going to > upgrade and see how it can perform. Actually my Trim Slice lacks a > couple of hardware features, for instance the power light doesn't come > on and the system cannot power-off unless you pull the plug out. I > actually need to send my TS back to CompuLab for that because it is a > problem with the first systems they produced. > > If you have specific questions about the Trim Slice I'll try to help. > > Cheers, > Alex > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/05e256ec9d983f974083d261777490e5.squir...@webmail.strucktower.com
