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 Post subject: Welcome to M2
PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:04 pm 
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NASLite-M2 pronounced M2 or M Squared for Multi Media, brings a new product line to ServerElements.

With the focus of Media Streaming and sharing, combined with the solid NASLite-2 core, M2 will provide users with the ability to share music and video thru the DAAP and UpNp protocols. Users will be able to stream music/video to iTunes clients and other audio players that support DAAP as well as photos, music and video to the Playstation 3, XboX 360 and other devices that support the UpNp protocol.

Pricing and release date are still pending. More information will be made available at release.


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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Nice - looking forward to taking it for a spin (as I'm soon going to be permitted by the Domestic Chief Financial Officer to build an HTPC for the lounge).


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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Yer baby, Bring it on!


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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iTunes on my Macintosh using M2's DAAP sharing.


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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Teasing is neither big nor clever and should be banned forthwith from these forums!!!! ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
PostPosted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:07 pm 
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Some preliminary facts you may find interesting:

The M2 OS is approximately 6.5M and runs in a 16M RAM Disk. Our goal is to eventually trim that down to 6M and 12M respectively.

In terms of performance I'd place NASLite-M2 on par with NASLite-2 for obvious reasons. DAAP and UPnP can be individually enabled and disabled like all other protocols, so if any one is unnecessary, resources can be reclaimed for use by other services.

UPnP is very resource-hungry but in it's current M2 implementation, based on ushare, it's quite manageable. In a test VM with 64M of RAM, M2 managed 200G of media files quite easily. UPnP uses a swap that is automatically created and mounted as needed, so performance can remain largely unchanged even with all services enabled.

M2 will automatically create a "MEDIA" folder on each drive. That is where one would place media files with the intent to export via DAAP or UPnP. Everything outside of he MEDIA folders will not be available to media clients.

Media playback should be solid since most quality MM clients employ local buffering to accommodate network latency. But even if that's not the case, the response time of NASLite-M2 is fast enough to compensate.

Available UPnP profiles are Generic, DLNA and XBOX. Those should accommodate most intelligent devices out there including the PS3.

Any questions or comments are welcome. We'll try and put forth as much information as possible.


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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How is development coming for this? Considering say Itunes constant state of flux and incompatibility with daapd from time to time? Currently I AM using Naslite to store my itunes library and songs.. However I have made a set of scripts that go and get the most recent version of the library and overwrite the local one.. Requiring syncs if a change is made to the library.. In any event.. I would LOVE!!!!!! to get my hands on a working dapp version of naslite!!!


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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How is development coming for this?


98% done.


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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Been waiting a long time for this. Count me in.


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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Here's a couple of menu's for controlling UpNp and DAAP.


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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Questions, Comments, Bueller? Anyone?

NASLite-M2 will incorporate some new features obviously, but also some new functionality.

Probably the most obvious will be a unified boot. CDD/HDD/USB boot option versions are a relic from the NASLite+ era that carried over into NASLite-2. Starting with M2, there will be a single cdrom iso that will allow you to boot into the livecd or install to a hard drive, usb key, or any other storage your bios will boot. This should minimize confusion and give greater flexibility for the end user.


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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Excellent - now no more problems with buying the wrong version....

I take it that M2 will migrate to the 2.6 kernel (when NASLite-2.6 is released) to make the most of available CPU cores and RAM?

Alternatively, would it maybe be best to delay the launch of M2 until the 2.6 kernel is complete?


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:40 pm 
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NASLite-2 currently supports up to 4gigs of ram, which is more than sufficient for a NAS application.

With the reworked unified boot, we can present more options with the current core, and a SMP kernel for multiprocessors will more than likely be an option.


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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Excellent!


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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to M2
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I'm definately interested!!!


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