Bill Patterson on 28 Jan 2010 19:30:39 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] no moving parts


The reason for wanting Debian is so that I can have a familiar 
installation interface.  I want a Web server that can issue commands 
like wake-on-lan, which I  know how to do in Debian.

Bill

Richard Freeman wrote:
> On 01/28/2010 06:19 PM, Bill Patterson wrote:
>   
>> Can anyone recommend a computer with no moving parts?  I want one to
>> stay on 24/7 and be there to 'wake-on-lan' my other computers only when
>> I want them on.  This computer would have to take Debian Linux.
>>     
>
> If you're willing to build it yourself this isn't too hard to do - if 
> you're willing to accept less-than-stellar performance.
>
> For example, many mini-ITX systems are designed to operate without 
> cooling.  They usually involve rather large brick power supplies, however.
>
> The trick is to keep the power consumption way down, and use a CPU that 
> is closer to a smartphone than a desktop PC.
>
> I imagine you could do the same in a regular ATX system - but you have 
> to find a motherboard and CPU designed to consume very little power.
>
> If you don't need much storage space you can probably find a fairly 
> cheap linux-based thin client and re-purpose it.  Forget running debian 
> though - you're going to need a very minimal footprint, but you could 
> probably get a cron daemon, sshd, and wake-on-lan working just fine.  At 
> work I was messing around with some $120 thin clients and they have a 
> small linux install (busybox/etc) with 128MB of flash.  You can actually 
> do quite a bit with 128MB if you're careful and don't care about GUIs 
> (after all, these boxes ran X11 and Citrix).
>
> I like the plug computer idea though - only pain there is that you don't 
> get a traditional console which can make setup a bit trickier.  You're 
> not going to be installing anything too big on that either, unless you 
> network-mount /usr or something (which then necessitates another powered 
> on server of some kind).
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