Ultra Quiet and Power Saving Kurobox Linux-based personal server
May 9, 2006 by colbert low
Filed under Announcements
Here’s a Linux revolution that’s quiet and power saving for home and geek users. Check it out if you love small linux servers and it could even serve as a small web server.
The current incarnation of the KuroBox, the KuroBox/HG, sports a 266Mhz PowerPC processor, 128MB of RAM, 2 USB 2.0 Ports, and a 10/100/1000Mbit network interface.
The KuroBox comes without a hard drive, but can hold any standard IDE (parallel ATA, not SATA) 3.5″ drive. The KuroBox runs on a Linux kernel, and has multiple options for actual distribution. Actually, any Linux distribution that supports PPC will work, but so far the community has ported over Gentoo, Debian, Fedora and Sylver’s Distro (which is the current incarnation of the Kuro’s original embedded distribution).
To give you a rough idea about the KuroBox/HG’s power, it can transcode (decode and then re-encode to another bitrate) MP3’s using LAME at about 25% faster than realtime. While not as fast as today’s modern PC’s, this is coming from a box that uses 17 Watts of juice. The tiny onboard fan (used to dissipate the hard drive’s heat) is ultra-quiet at 22dB.
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