[LinuxUsers] Nice little home server

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jeff Lasman <jplists at nobaloney.net> wrote:
> On Friday 02 October 2009 12:30 pm, Jesus Noland wrote:
>
>> My only question is about the hard drive, it's SSD I get that, but
>> how big is it? The page says something about "specialized embedded OS
>> SSD/Linux", so I'm confused about how it's embedded. But if I had the
>> money I'd definitely keep one of those in my back pocket.
>
> They wrote it, they installed it, instant on.
>
> My guess is that it runs in place, doesn't have to get loaded anywhere,
> and I suppose that's what they mean by embedded.

The term "embedded" these days seems to be applicable to anything that
isn't a traditional computer (laptop, desktop, or server).

Certainly most Linux based embedded code doesn't XIP execute-in-place
(i.e., from ROM or flash). Usually it all gets unpacked to some
ungodly amount of RAM, with a flashdisk and/or ramdisk.

-- John.