On 12/02/10 20:51, mick wrote:
Get one, have fun, and be amazed at what you can do for 89 quid. I mean, serously, I was running Sun SPARC servers in the early 90s which compare badly with the plug.
Thanks for the clear recommendation!
The application I am playing with primarily involves shuffling data from a serial port (via a USB to RS232 or 485 converter) to a remote server over a VPN. So I need the box to be able to establish a VPN connection on startup (and re-establish it if it drops), and to allow me to run some simple scripts to link data coming to/from the server to the USB serial port. Biggest issue I might have would be the USB/Serial - what chance of getting drivers to work?
What script languages are already available as binaries that run on the box? Python, Perl, PHP, etc? (I'll probably need to put a web interface on the box as well but I know it can do that.)
I honestly have no idea how much of what I know I could do in Linux on an Intel platform is transferable to the ARM in practice. I know binaries won't work but I don't know how easily applications will cross-compile in practice.