2011/12/14 Henrik Nordström <henrik(a)henriknordstrom.net>:
ons 2011-12-14 klockan 09:46 -0500 skrev omalleys(a)msu.edu:
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Buy.com has the pogoplug P21 for 28 dollars with free shipping.
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http://www.buy.com/prod/pogoplug-file-sharing-solution-black/221688297.html
> This does have the dual core oxnas chip in it.
As I said these devices currently run linux 2.6.31 only and upgrading
the kernel to something newer is not an easy task. It is possible, but
will require a lot of work to forward port the SoC support to newer
kernels. Because of this they are of very limited use for Fedora.
If you are looking into buying something for Fedora usage then better
pick one based on an CPU that have an actively maintained kernel and
preferably supported mainline.
There was a new pogo plug series 4 announced yesterday for $99
although I've found it for $75 [1] already. The interesting thing
about it is that it comes with 2x USB-3 ports, a sata port (in the
form of USM), gig ethernet and SD. Didn't manage to find decent
internal specs for it but it looks like it might be a Marvell [3]
processor, if so there should be reasonable support as the XO has a
Marvell processor. To support the gig, 6gb sata and 2 usb3 ports I
would suspect it would have to be some form of ARMv7 but it looks like
it could be an interesting device when more of the details emerge.
Peter
[1]
http://www.adorama.com/COCPOGOV4A1.html
[2]
http://www.sata-io.org/technology/usm.asp
[3]
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Pogoplug-Series-4/