[Voyage-linux] some questions on voyage on 0.8.5

[Protech Caribsurf]

As a music server it's hard to top the Alix board - cost, form factor,
reliability. The Alix just works. Full stop.

Derek

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From: Voyage-linux
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Of John Coltrane
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 2:30 AM
To: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] some questions on voyage on 0.8.5

Hi,

you can also use tried and true Debian on an Alix board. Do a minimal
install without X and any window/desktop managers with a 486 kernel.
Then you have support for all hardware Debian supports. Using Debians
backports repository you can also get relatively new kernels, without
compiling.

Or you can build yourself a system using Gentoo. Or CentOS. Or OpenBSD.
Or FreeBSD.

I'm writing this not to make competition, but there are alternatives, have a
look at http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm

- John


On 08/13/2012 04:58 AM, Michael Fung wrote:
> Hi Tomek,
>
> You can use voyage on other modern x86 architectures. You are free to 
> customize your kernel to support new devices.
>
> Rgds,
> Michael
>
> On 8/12/2012 4:31 AM, Nick L. wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Tomek Suchecki 
>> <czandraszekar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> heh, I don`t understand why voyage still is concetraced around alix 
>>> ... it`s so old and futureless, wheeze support arm..
>>
>> Because it's a solid and stable platform. It's well documented, 
>> reliable and cheap. Pascal makes reliable and smart hardware designs.
>> My WRAP board running m0n0wall for over 13(?) years has never given 
>> my any issues and it's been on that long.
>>
>>
>> It's also x86. And ARM is not. No cross compiling issues, etc., etc.
>> Use and x86 source, debian package ot alien converted rpm.
>>
>> And what exactly do you gain from going to ARM for Voyage? If your 
>> application is that specialized then you ain't using Voyage and you 
>> would not be on this list asking that question.
>>
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