On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 14:31 +0100, Ramana Kumar wrote: > Can someone like me help achieve the aims of the FreedomBox Foundation > without buying a plug server? Can't I run my desktop as a server, and > what would be the point?
Because a FreedomBox runs 24/7 the (idle) power consumption of your desktop computer is very important. I wrote an article about the costs of running the FreedomBox software on a desktop computer. Compared it with the DreamPlug and Raspberry Pi. http://freedomboxblog.nl/cheap-hardware-for-the-freedombox-software/ If your desktop computer has a low idle-power consumption, it can be (*much*) cheaper to run the FreedomBox software on your desktop computer than buying a dedicated DreamPlug for that task. If you want to use your desktop computer i recommend running the FreedomBox software inside a VM. Rob. http://freedomboxblog.nl _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
