Plug computers

[John Miles]

Wow - these would be fantastic for my use.
I could provide a vpn connection to our IPMI devices at customer sites where
we only have one machine.

Thanks for raising these to our attention!

John.


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scruss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On 10-08-24 21:24 , Giles Orr wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone own one?
>
> Yes; been using one of the original Sheevaplug development kits for
> about 18 months. Fun little machine - I use it as my music server, and
> ssh destination to all the other machines on my network.
>
> Mine runs Ubuntu 9.04, which is the latest that an ARM5 can run - all
> newer distros are ARM6 only. Quite fast, but its floating point is
> utterly dismal; don't expect to encode MP3s at any speed. Draws about 5W.
>
> Shipping was a bit slow - they seem to come over in batches, which are
> then individually shipped from the US. I had nothing payable on mine; YMMV.
>
>  Stewart
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