Plug Computers for whole-home audio (was: [GNHLUG] REMINDER: ManchLUG: Tuesday April 19th @ Wings Your Way - Manchester NH)

[Derek Atkins]

"Ken D'Ambrosio" <ken at jots.org> writes:

> Actually, a confluence of events has me playing with my Sheeva today.  By
> sheer circumstance, I
> - Need to replace my bedroom computer with something quiet
> - Bought a 10-port powered USB hub
> - Acquired, gratis, a USB-to-VGA converter
> - Saw a video of someone running Gnome off of a Sheeva plug.
>
> It seemed like the perfect setup for my Sheeva to step in.  Unfortunately,
> for one, as of 9.10(?), Ubuntu no longer supports the Sheeva; they compile
> for a higher CPU than the Sheeva has.  Then, my 16 GB SD card gave up the
> ghost.  So I'm installing Debian on a newly acquired card; what with only
> 512 MB of RAM, I don't anticipate that I'll be making huge inroads into
> graphical editing or anything, but assuming I get it working as a
> "workstation," it'll just be DamnCool(tm).

Try Fedora.  The Fedora-Arm project is a little behind right now, but
they're in beta test of Fedora 13 and in a week should get working on
F13-updates and F14...  With the hope that F15 will happen shortly after
the primary F15 release.

They have Gnome support (supposedly), and they certainly still support
the SheevaPlug.  However I do believe you still need to use a separate
kernel and cannot use the Fedora-Arm kernel rpm.

> -Ken

-derek

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