<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 November 2010 13:36, Robert Ladyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk">it@file-away.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
This is really interesting: the chap went from multiple boxes to a single<br>
(linux) laptop to a Sheeva plug (again running Linux) - well worth a read.<br>
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<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/11/diy_zero_energy_home_server/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/11/diy_zero_energy_home_server/</a><br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div> A very, very interesting article Robert, Fedora has an ARM port</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM"></a>A dual-core Opteron 175 as a server draws 120 watts on its own, I liked the way he dealt with the reduction in the threads/child processes and application memory management. I had posted an article on the mailing list about how data centers and clusters could be built using ARM chips to reduce cost and power consumption.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2362903,00.asp">http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2362903,00.asp</a></div><div><br></div><div>Now if I could run CentOS 6 on this with headless virtual machines at 100MB memory per virtual machine that would be really interesting. A bit of reading up on this subject is required (among other things), and you can take it further like running virtual machines on smartphones etc...Like what I said a lot of food for thought.<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2362903,00.asp"></a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Gordon</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">--<br>
Robert Ladyman<br></blockquote></div>