On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 04:15:13PM +0000, mick wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 15:21:24 +0000 Chris Green cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
RPi isn't supposed to be particularly good for sound, and as soon as you move to alternatives the price creeps up, support is less universal and you end up down a bit of a blind alley.
It's just a pity that none of the relatively cheap - and low power - NAS systems is 'open'.
Try the Linksys NSLU2 - I have three of them and they are easy to reflash (with debian or unslung) and there is (still) a fairly active community of users out there. See http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ and http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/
You can pick up slugs for about £10-20 off ebay. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=linksys+N...
Definitely a possible, I've often considered buying one.