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On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:03 +0100, cull wrote: > Quoting John Horne <john.horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > The included storage is small at one GiB; external usb flash drive on > the Lintop 1 and internal flash on the Lintop 2. 1Gb? SMALL??? Nah. I'm sure you can get a usable system within that. Various distributions can do a server install under 200Mb (even vanilla Debian is 180mb), many can do under 100Mb, specialised ones like Emdebian can do under 25Mb. Should provide plenty of room for your data. (I remember installing my first GNU/Linux box - it only had a 1Gb hard drive.) > No moving parts so it should be silent. I've been looking for > something quiet and low power to run as a basic file server at home > and one of these, at less than 8 watts, along with an external hard > drive may be just the thing. Depends what you are trying to serve but the important point is whether the box can have a local OS running without external devices so that a new external device can be plugged in without restarting the box itself. -- Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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