Recently, while aimlessly wandering the web, I happened upon the following:
http://www.plugcomputer.org/
I've been waiting for the ARM revolution to hit my home, and I'm now
wondering if it's here.
There's a great forum article at the above URL about installing Debian
(yee-haw!) on a plug, and there are more than just wafts of Fedora to be
found.
I've got a box in the basement that I'm pretty sure could be replaced by
one(!) of these things. I'd be lowering the energy requirements of my
home network to about 1/5 or less if I could move to a 5 watt network
server (I'm thinking BIND, DHCP, and NTP on one plug, then scaling to
run a firewall on another, an IMAP mail server in combination with an
external HDD on another, and so on, and so on, and so on...).
So I'm phishing for deets that anyone out there might have regarding
these ARM-based plug computers.
I'm wanting to know:
Where (in O-town or elsewhere) did you source it?
What did you get?
Did you root the device (with debian or your other favorite)?
Have you even heard of these?
Is the ARM revolution really ready to hit home?
Cheers!
-Paul