Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Miller
> btw, i have two raspberry pi at home now. i would like to run plan9 > and inferno (at least emu) on it as soon as possible. If the π is running linux, emu shouldn't be difficult to get going. Try building with SYSTARG=Linux OBJTYPE=arm and see how far you get.

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:47:17AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > i'd aspire to be like that. > I look forward to your hardware offerings

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:12:55AM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: > Evaluations of the Sheevaplug in particular revealed it tended to > overheat badly if you put any significant load on the networking > components. Heating problems combined with poor quality control would > be my guess as to why that

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread Wes Kussmaul
> http://xkcd.com/731/ When you send an xkcd link to a large list, you make a dent in the world's productivity. You can't look at just one.

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread hiro
On 6/12/12, Nick LaForge wrote: > Sure. But the Sheevaplug (same SoC) is now 3 years old, and it looks > like the whole 'plug-computer' thing never took off. Since phones mhm, kirkwood right? I think the dockstars and it's competition on the "small home server" market pretty much did take off.

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread hiro
ah btw, my dockstar has gigabit ethernet. and my iomega iconnect does too. the bottleneck is always USB 2.0 for me, but there are two-core NAS nowadays at Aldi for 50 euros (with SATA and gige). I think there's a lot to chose from if you're willing to write the drivers. The mk802 seems very promis

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread David Leimbach
On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:12:55AM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: > > Evaluations of the Sheevaplug in particular revealed it tended to > > overheat badly if you put any significant load on the networking > > components. Heating problems comb

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:48:22AM -0700, David Leimbach wrote: > On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > > I'm very happy with my Sheevaplug. It works with heavy cpu loads (full gnu > > system builds from time to time) for days, and works very good. It's > > serving me > > very

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Jun 12 08:26:30 EDT 2012, kh...@intma.in wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:47:17AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > > i'd aspire to be like that. > > > > I look forward to your hardware offerings release will be at vmworld in august. - erik

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread Bakul Shah
I have a different view on this. Boards like the RaspberryPi are just fine as a hobbyist hardware hacking/embedded platform. At $25 to $35 a pop I can buy a bunch of them and put them to different uses. If you design any small board with a few ICs & a microproc, it can end up costing in the same

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Jun 12 13:27:58 EDT 2012, ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: > I have a different view on this. > > Boards like the RaspberryPi are just fine as a hobbyist > hardware hacking/embedded platform. At $25 to $35 a pop I can > buy a bunch of them and put them to different uses. good points. > If you

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread Harri Haataja
On 12 June 2012 16:29, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 6/12/12, Nick LaForge wrote: >> Sure.  But the Sheevaplug (same SoC) is now 3 years old, and it looks >> like the whole 'plug-computer' thing never took off.  Since phones > > mhm, kirkwood right? I think the dockstars and it's compet