Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> writes: > OK so this is just me thinking out loud now. > > Has anyone priced up how cheap they could make a pulse server? > > I'm thinking: > > * Small mobo with not very powerful CPU. > * Sound output (obviously) > * Small amount of ram > * Ethernet (wired and/or wireless) > * Onboard flash or PXE capable boot > > With the above it would be possible to tailor a small linux install to > boot and run pulse and have it publish itself to your network with > zeroconf-publish and tunnel-sink. > > Has anyone done any research on this? What's the cheapest possible way > of doing it. Anyone manage to rip out cheap consumer electronics gear > and slap their own linux kernel + pulse on it? Didn't someone here use an NSLU2? I have one that I hope to try to use one day. The only problem with it was that pulseaudio didn't work well without an FPU, but maybe that has been fixed? An NSLU2 is $82 on Amazon. But you need an USB audio box as well. -- David K?gedal
