I loaded OpenSolaris nv101 on it and the result was very disappointing. Not merely a little pokey it was unacceptably slow and the casing got very warm. I am guessing it was pushing CPU right to 100% all the time. Took hours to load and when booting took minutes. Also didn't see an easy way to disable graphical login so on boot every time it would go to scrambled graphics and then no easy way to get in to turn off graphics. Trying virtual console switching didn't work for me. It didn't take me long to realize this wasn't going to be usable.
I loaded Ubuntu 8.10 Server which worked great. OpenSolaris is just too demanding for small hardware. Oh well, the hardware will still be used for it's intended purpose just not with the OS I would have preferred. You can stop reading here if you aren't interested in the Slim: One oddity I didn't see anything in BIOS for timed power control. Usually I'm using to being able to set up a timer so if it's off it gets turned on at 4AM or something like that. Okay this part is COOL, in the BIOS you can underclock the CPU/RAM to lower levels. Went all the way down to 200 MHz. I didn't do power measurements on that yet but I'm guessing if you really have it doing very lightweight jobs you could set for lower speed and save another Watt. Loaded with Ubuntu 8.10 Server. Wow! This is exactly what I'm looking for. Not going to encode video on it after all so the weakish CPU doesn't matter. Boots quickly and runs fine. Casing just gets warm not hot. Planning to run Apache, RADIUS, Nagios, maybe Samba and a few other things for internal use. Putting drives in it is easy. Removing drives is a pain due to the short IDE cable and it's tight connector, and I got really tired of it as I swapped in a couple of different drives testing OS. Sizewise it's smaller than my WRT54GS router and uses a little less power. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
