[mythtv-users] NAS with flash drive?

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 01:30:47 Per Jørgensen wrote:

>
> As far as I know - Its possible to run MythTV on the NSLU2 - allthough
> I'm using it for backup device - and seconedary DNS!
> But a guide for the NSLU2 -http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_On_NSLU2


I would describe this as a triumph of engineering over common sense. The slug 
has no video hardware, you have tro display on a different machine.

The slug does not even have a floating point unit, even decoding MP3s strains 
this little device (I had to locate an integer-based decoder). Running MySQL 
is a chore for a slug.

I suppose it could be done, but why?

The slug and other similar devices are very handy and can do a lot, but 
running Myth would not be its strong point, IMHO.

The SheevaPlug has a little more capability, but is still not capable of 
intensive A/V applications. I'm not sure if the SheevaPlug has an FPU, but 
it's still a limited device with no video hardware.

I ran a mail server for a long time on a slug, but it fell down trying to cope 
with modern anti-spam and anti-virus applications. For example, doing OCR to 
detect image spam was way beyond its cpabilities. It worked, but at a crawl.

Great little units, but not really Myth hardware.

-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org