Building a eco-friendly home server with Voyage Linux

Why spend over HK$1,000 for a eco-friendly 586 class machine? The reason behind this is so obvious that need no more explanation.

The major goals:

• Operate 7×24 with very lower power consumption.
• Support P2P file sharing. No more leaving the desktop PC on just for P2P!
• Provide basic NAS functions.

Desirable features:

• Act as a WiFi broadband router
• Schedule to record internet radio programs
• Act as media streaming server

• Voyage Linux 0.6.2 LiveCD. Download from voyage website. Or from here: voyage-0.6.2.tar.bz2
• ALIX board and accessories, a null modem cable for the console port is a must.
• Compact Flash, at least 1GB.
• A regular Debian box as the build-box for compiling additional stuff.

The installation is basically copying the fs image from the CD to a ext2 partition in the CF. Steps is in the README file.

• Setup networking
• Setup QoS and traffic shaping
• Setup DDNS update
• Fix clock issue
• Enable hardware encryption engine of the Geode chip
• Ensure LEDs will blink after boot
• Fix boot error from voyage-util
• Relocate folders to tmpfs and How it works?
• How to make root fs read only from start to stop
• Run MYSQL with data files in memory
• Setup Nginx + PHP5
• Setup Transmission BT
• Setup external hard drive
• Setup NAS related features
• Setup Wi-Fi AP in bridge mode
• Setup Collectd monitoring
• Setup SSDP daemon
• Setup IGD daemon
• Setup DLNA server
• Rebuild kernel