[time-nuts] Best OS for small time server

[Eric Fort]

serial port for the slug:

http://www.rwhitby.net/projects/nslu2

my slug has one.  I believe the slug also has some gpio pins that may be
usefull for pps.

Eric

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Matthew Smith <matt at smiffytech.com> wrote:

> 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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