[Owncloud] Plug ‘play Box with Owncloud preinstalled

[Arman Khalatyan]

Hi,
i have at home Raspberry Pi-2 as OC instance, works nice with 500Gb
external disk, as a homestorage,One note that Raspbery Pi should be running
in overclock mode and external USB disk should be powered from another
powersource(some times when disk is sleeping after access RPi is
restarting. Total costs RPi from amazon about
70Euro(case/cords/AC/SD)+100Euro UsbDisk.
Arman.



On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> unfortunately the Open-PC project is not active anymore at the moment.
> The original idea was to build nicely preconfigured Linux PCs as
> alternative to Windows and Mac PCs. We charged 50,- EUR more than the pure
> hardware price to provide a special preconfigured openSUSE with all the
> right drivers installed, a telephone support hotline where you can call if
> you have questions about Linux, a donation for open source projects like
> KDE and openSUSE, a few stickers and more.
> Unfortunately this didn't work and we sold only a few. Most people buy the
> cheep hardware and install the software on their own.
>
> This could happen here again with ownCloud. Instead of buying an ownCloud
> box for 75,- EU most people would probably buy a Raspberry PI and install
> ownCloud on their own. But I could be wrong of course. :-)
>
> So if someone want's to do that then we could reuse the Open-PC project
> for that. All the trademarks, domains, infrastructure, stickers and even
> contracts with manufacturing partners are still here. Someone just has to
> step up :-)
>
>
> Frank
>
>
> On 16.05.2013, at 17:50, Doc Long <farsons2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> > I saw about the OPEN PC project.
> > Is there any plan to build & sell a ready-to-go plug ‘play Box with
> Owncloud preinstalled, which small offices / or households (e.g. for 5-10
> users) could simply plug into their router and start using for sharing /
> accessing small files, adressbook, calendar??
> >
> > That would be awesome, and I guess there is a big market/demand for that!
> > Most people would prefer to have the data in their own four walls.
> However installing & configuring such OC instance is still a big obstacle!
> >
> > Thank you!
> > Consider!
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