Sharp's "home server" to run MontaVista Linux [LWN.net]

MontaVista has sent out a press release announcing that its "Professional Edition" will be running inside Sharp's HG-01S ("Galileo") home server. This server looks like a fun gadget, it handles video recording (onto an internal 120GB disk), functions as a web server, and can be controlled in several ways. One just hopes that a lot of attention is being paid to security issues.

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Better place for personal web server

Posted Nov 10, 2003 16:37 UTC (Mon) by proski (guest, #104) [Link]

I think they would have better chances to succeed if they put the web server inside a "broadband router", like those by Linksys. It's always on, it's always online, it's not behind firewall, it has a web server already (for configuration). It could be a great hit for those whose personal pages that are not visited much (less than 500 times a day) and who don't have too much data (upgradable 128M flash card should be fine).

Combining personal webserver with PVR is more artificial and may he harder to set up for non-technical users.