Hi all
Been reading lots of posts and lots of the guides ... and now, I am kinda lost.
I'm embarking on my first voyage into plugs and this is the first time that I am making such a purchase. I'm more used to servers (RHEL/Centos/Scientific) - I guess you can say that I am comfortable working on the command line?
In any case, I'm looking at replacing my existing workhorse in the house - an old P4 machine. I'm looking towards the following:
- 24x7 operations at home
- a plug that is easy to install archlinux arm
- hopefully not overwrite the existing flash, so that i can dual boot the original flash and archlinux arm at will
- willing to plug in a usb hdd or sd card as required
- ability to install squid (running it in transparent mode at home)
- ability to run netfilter / iptables (nat)
- ability to run openvpn
- and of course the usual samba, rsync, ftp
At first I thought the Pogoplug would be sufficient ... but reading the instructions, it seems that it will overwrite the existing and that's something that I am afraid would go wrong. (Worried about bricking it )
Looked around at Tonido Plug - looks good except that the instructions on this site is for the first version whereas tonidoplug.com is selling TonidoPlug2.
So right now, I kinda confused.
Would appreciate any advise for a newbie ... Many thanks!