At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:53:29 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Robert Hellerheller@deepsoft.com wrote:
I think many dedicated NAS devices, are in fact Linux machines, using an embedded Linux system.
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Yes, many NAS devices does run an embedded Linux, or UNIX OS but they normally also run on an ARM / MIPS / etc processor which I can't get my hand on. And they normally also have a team of developers / testers / etc who spend their whole lives perfecting this particular piece of equipment (either software, or hardware) I don't have that kind of resources to my disposal, which is why I want to go the Linux, or perhaps even UNIX route.
Even if thay are using ARM / MIPS processors, the code is pretty much the same code one would run on a i686 or x86_64 processor.