PlugBox Linux - Arch variant for ARM plugbox

Today's woot was a $20 Seagate DockStar.
Basically, its a little usb hub with a 1.2ghz ARM Marvell Sheeva cpu, 128mb ram, gigabit connection, and very very low power consumption (like a SheevaPlug or TonitoPlug with half the ram). Curiosity got the best of me and some googling turned up PlugBox Linux; and ARM based Arch variant!
http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5?titl … gBox_Linux
After some research, I caved and bought the DockStar. If everything goes as planned, this little thing is going to consolidate 2 outdated servers into one tight little Arch system!
Anyone have any experience with this?
I plan to drop a 300gb external usb drive on this and use it for Samba sharing, uShare video streaming to my Xbox360, and as an rTorrent slave.
Side Note:
It seems a few months ago Office Depot was selling these things for $1 (not a typo, one dollar)!

sand_man wrote:
Labello wrote:i would use transmission as bittorrent client. has got a nicer webinterface. might not be as lightweight but also has more features :-)
I went back to rtorrent after using transmission briefly. I had problems with transmission retaining settings after service restarts. It was a major inconvenience since the downloads were going to the default transmission home
This was under FreeBSD btw. Sorry for the slightly off-topic
Major inconvenience!
Sorry, I had to do that...
Last edited by Roline (2010-07-07 10:29:26)

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