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Linux takes on a wide assortment of computing environments and comes out on top

SAN JOSE, Calif. October 21, 2008 Plat Home, Japan s Linux skill pioneer, today announced the consequences of the Force Linux Labor contest. For the ancient times month, Plat Residence s OpenMicroServer OMS has been in the hands of the four race winners who have put Linux to the test. By combining Japanese skill with American ingenuity, the Force Linux Labor race showcased the plasticity and incredible sort of promise for Linux to do amazing possessions in a diverse sort of environments.

The Force Linux Labor race began in late July. Participants were asked to push a normal attendant s limits and suggest thoughts that they would investigation and reveal rider Linux really could vocation in their environment.

Last month, Plat Residence announced the OMS would be awarded to Steve Castellotti to investigation the attendant as a GPS and monitoring tool aboard his trimaran, Martin Ewing to investigation the attendant as a dwelling convenience mechanization system, Colin Duplantis to investigation the attendant as an irrigation control organization and Gordon Smith to investigation the attendant as monitoring gate director for his capon coop.

The Results

Castellotti wanted a common sense for his boat, but he was not ready for such a high IQ. He connected to Plat Residence s software package depository to download essential components, and he also connected both a 1 TB external hard drive and an iPod as additional USB Luggage compartment devices. Now monitoring and tracking on the high seas and in haven are easier than ever.

Even during the first round stages on implementing Plat Residence s OpenMicroServer I have already noticed benefits, said Steve Castellotti. The OpenMicroServer s doling out clout and recollection capabilities far out perform plans of similar mass and structure. It did not let me down!

Ewing wanted to build a Residence Advantage Support System, and stick it in his crypt in an setting somewhat questionable for a normal Notebook server. Software utilized during the scheme included gcc, Python, vim, gnuplot, ssh, and Apache. Ewing says that software developed for the scheme willpower be made under the GPLv3. The OMS s grouping of compact, robust wrapping and nonvolatile sparkle disk, along with the clout of its Linux operating environment, passed the investigation with flying colors.

The great advantage of the organization is in the improvement setting that chains advanced networking and speech tools, said Martin Ewing. The physical package of the attendant also made it very suitable as a dwelling mechanization tool for fitting in unfriendly environments such as a dwelling basement. Its small size, low clout supplies and wide operating warmth sort were ideal to accomplish my task.

Duplantis is structure a organization to control his cattle farm s irrigation system, cover five aches, for watering lawns, providing ingestion water for sheep and other animals, and custody a fishpond full. He had written his own side of irrigation control software. To fully investigation it willpower require administration it through four seasons, so it is still in testing, but popping open the hood, installing an 8GB CF card, and interpretation the manuals was enough to get his organization up and running. Individual willing to haven his homemade irrigation control software to C allows him to run the group on the OMS, and interfacing with the irrigation director via its RS232 boundary has allowed him control where, when and how much water flows.

While the irrigation control organization with the OpenMicroServer is still a vocation in process, the first round trials have been quite successful, said Colin Duplantis. I anticipate this new irrigation organization willpower reduce my dominance statement and overall upholding costs, not to mention the small mass of the attendant frees up a group of needed liberty in the irrigation house.

Smith needed a big cheese to sentinel his chickens, a big cheese reliable enough to stay up all night, a big cheese smart enough to tell the divergence between a capon and a raccoon, and a big cheese to close the gate at the right time. His organization utilizes an inexpensive webcam with IR capacity to see in the dark, along with a supercomputer mental picture documentation to count the chickens. To determine when nightfall occurs, the attendant willpower run simple association point in moment in time practice SNTP and question another attendant to determine when end of the daylight occurs each day. A stepper motor director and clout supply from a paper scanner are used to open and close the run door. Reception dwelling chickens!

Plat Residence s OpenMicroServer has been an ideal fit to accomplish my desires for a capon sitter , said Gordon Smith. The whole organization hysterics unobtrusively in a turn of the run and has the hardware and software capacity to accomplish the required tasks. My four spiral chickens are very fortunate to have such a capable helper

We are obviously very excited that our OpenMicroServer was able to switch such a wide sort of tests, said Tomoyasu Suzuki, head of Plat Home. Stipulation the OpenMicroServer is flexible enough to switch these environments and easy enough to use then it is safe to say that the OpenMicroServer can switch any regular agency environment. Our winners clearly proved that Linux really could vocation anywhere.

To see a complete niceties and all the niceties from the Force Linux Labor contest, please call Plat Residence s blog: http: www.plathomeus.blogspot.com . Or follow Plat Residence on Twitter: http: www.twitter.com plathomeweb


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