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iPod Apple TV as Server

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joehack

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Has someone else thought aboout using Apple TV as a Linux server? The hardware specs sound promissing, at least as a mini server.

Jochen
 
I guess that you could get linux on there as long as you can plug a drive into the USB port or hook the internal drive up to another computer.

What exactly would you want to do with it, once you had linux running on it?
 
I don't think for the cost it would really be worth making it into a server when you could make a server with better specs for much less.
 
does anyone have one of these yet, when do they ship? How hard is it to upgrade the HD. I think 40 gb is kinda skimp.
 
joehack said:
Has someone else thought aboout using Apple TV as a Linux server? The hardware specs sound promissing, at least as a mini server.

Jochen
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A used G4 Mini would probably cost about the same and would be much easier to set up as a server. Just run OS X headless and it's basically FreeBSD, or VNC into it. You could also get a wired ethernet port and a firewire port for adding external storage. The only thing you'd miss is 802.11n.
 
40gb isn't an ideal capacity for any kind of file server.

it'd be more fun to buy a used PII box for $25 and put 3 500gb hdds in it. :)
 
Super Macho Man said:
A used G4 Mini would probably cost about the same and would be much easier to set up as a server. Just run OS X headless and it's basically FreeBSD, or VNC into it. You could also get a wired ethernet port and a firewire port for adding external storage. The only thing you'd miss is 802.11n.
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I don't disagree, you also get a built in optical drive but :apple:TV does already have the wired Ethernet port. Does the G4 mini have Gigabit or 100BaseT?

FWIW The Airport Extreme also looks like a good candidate for a linux box, I'm surprised that (to my knowledge) no one ever got Linux on the Airport Express....

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Bhe 40GB harddisk can be upgraded. But for me, the big advantage of Apple TV is (hopefully) it's power consumtion and size.
I want to replace my current PIII notebook that serves as DNS, LDAP, NTP and what ever server.

Jochen
 
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