[Freedombox-discuss] Sunday HackFest

[Gwenole Auvray]

http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=554
2011/2/23 Helmut Pozimski <mailinglist at pozimski.eu>

> Am Mittwoch 23 Februar 2011, 21:45:43 schrieb Thomas Doczkal:
> > On 21.02.2011 23:51, Michiel de Jong wrote:
> > I think Sheeva has no fan and apparently gets too
> >
> > > hot. Guru has a fan that apparently sounds like a 24x7 hair dryer.
> > >
> > > More hardware is mentioned
> > > here
> http://wiki.debiahttp://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=554n.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware<http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware>
> >
> > I think I need a device which is not getting hot and is fan less or at
> > least has a fan which is nearly silent.
> >
> > I'll wait for reports before I buy a device. Meanwhile I will use my
> > Fritz!Box and install tor there. Should be possible although I have not
> > done this before.
> I run a sheevaplug as my personal freedombox for some time now. It is
> installed with Debian squeeze and runs all the services I need (web, dns,
> mail, groupware, tor, nfs) In general it runs great, it only gets warm not
> hot
> when running and I didn't have any problems with it so far.
>
> I see two main problems with the device. The internal memory is pretty
> small
> and even if the freedombox software fits within 512 MB when it's released,
> you
> won't have much space left to install additional software or store data.
> Installing the OS on a SD card is possible but read/write performance could
> be
> much better so you probably wouldn't want to store much data here either.
> The
> second one is that the power supply seems to be too week to power exernal
> hard
> drives over USB and would break eventually. I didn't want to try that one
> but
> there are many reports in the forums about that. I worked around that issue
> by
> using an additional USB power supply.
>
> One thing you might also want to keep an eye on for freedom box hardware is
> the DreamPlug[1] which seems to be an overall improved and extended version
> of
> the sheevaplug.
>
> regards
> Helmut
>
> [1]: http://newit.co.uk/shop/proddetail.php?prod=DreamPlug
>
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