Marvell's SheevaPlug Linux PC fits in its power adapter
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted February 24th 2009 4:48PM
posted February 24th 2009 4:48PM
Marvell has the technology and the vision, and if the company gets its way the world will soon be overrun by lilliputian Linux machines. Hiding in wall warts and the like, these guys will begin quietly taking over tasks that we once relegated to servers and desktop machines. To this end, the company has just announced that they'll be making the SheevaPlug dev kit available. This is the platform that PogoPlug is based on, consisting of a 1.2GHz Kirkwood processor, 512MB flash storage, 512MB DRAM, a Gigabit Ethernet port, and USB 2.0. This bad boy supports many standard Linux 2.6 kernel distributions, and the whole thing plugs directly into a standard wall socket, drawing "less than one tenth of the power of a typical PC" while in use. Currently available for $99, the company says that it anticipates a price drop to $49 "in the near future."
1- Install a slim Linux server
2- Attach an external USB drive
3- Install SSH, rTorrent & wTorrent packages
4- ...
5- Profit!
I could also see people setting up seed boxes at there work to run at night or something... lol you could put a usb wifi on that bad boy and hide it anywhere.
I am curious enough to get one
Sweet. Hopefully it will be available with Euro AC connector.
The specs say it can take upto 250V AC and 50 or 60Hz :)
So, all you need is a cheap plug converter, not a AC-AC Voltage converter :) and it will work in the UK
Please oh please tell me these can be used to host webcams. Something the Arduino is underpowered for. And it pains me to "waste" a Thinkpad just to harvest & FTP JPGs.
JetCityOrange.com/webcams
Hmmm... any chance I could put LAMP on this w/ Wordpress? I'd love to not have my gaming machine running 24/7, but MySQL takes a lot of rams.
Ideally I'd make it a LAMP server, SAMBA, and some sort of linux... maybe even upnp media server? Now I'm getting greedy...
I meant some sort of seed box, not some sort of linux.
Fit a laptop hard drive into it, make it capable to manage a DVB receiver and I'll get one :)
I think its stupid of the company spokesperson to say that a $99 product will be available soon @ $49. That one of the reasons why I think this product will never pass a year on shelves
Add a VGA port to this for powering a display and you have the perfect digital picture frame server (i'd just use a USB wifi adapator for connectivity rather than the ethernet connection for perfect placement options).
Put one of these in a Squeezebox and I'm sold.
For sure it can do the same thing as NSLU2. So install a native Debian Linux is out of double.
They can make it more fancy if there is power line ethernet integrated.
$99 is OK price compares to those NAS enclosures. You know these days net book is so damn cheap that you can get one for around $150 with decent hardware.
I'll buy one for bittorrent download. An embedded web server will do the GUI job, and this is not a problem at all cause I can use my iPhone safari to control it remotely.