[time-nuts] Best OS for small time server

[Matthew Smith]

Hi Rob

> I live in Texas, so I have something more than a passing familiarity  
> with oppressive heat.  In essence, every watt imported into my den  
> has to be forcibly removed 9 months of the year, if not more.  
Yup - sounds like here, probably just shifted by six months.

> ...  I picked up a  
> Linksys NSLU2 network storage widget and hacked into it.  It runs a  
> minimal Linux system on a very low power ARM processor, and uses USB  
> attach disk storage.
Hmm - interesting.  I know of these 'slugs' being used as the heart of
1-Wire (R) weather systems.  Think there is a way of fitting a serial
port, with a little hardware hacking, but will have to check on that.

> ...But I thought you'd fine the  
> flash disk results interesting.
And was my concern, but the atime thing mentioned in other posts may be
a way around it.

> Beyond this, Dave Mills, the author of NTP has a great paper on high  
> resolution timekeeping in Unix kernels.  It's a bit dated, circa  
> 1994, but it might be worth a read.
I thank you - I'll have a look at this.

Cheers

M


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