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The Sheevaplug comes as a development kit with opportunity to become a product or whatever you want it to be but it is not a finished product as such. The Pogoplug is a product built from the Sheevaplug that has a a really cool application that provides file sharing over the internet with the simplest of setups.
The Sheevaplug has a debug board that is not installed in the Pogoplug. That debug board gives the computer geek access to a serial console interface, an SD slot and a jtag interface.
The Pogoplug is plug-in and go for filesharing. You don't have to do anything other than plug it in. It's based on linux but you don't need to know anything about linux.
The Sheevaplug is loaded with a console only version of the latest linux Ubuntu. If you want to get your hands dirty with linux then the Sheevaplug is for you.
Hope that helps.
Hello, everyone:
I have recently learned about the Sheevaplug and the Pogoplug...and while I am more inclined to go ahead and buy a Pogoplug because it seems to come pre-configured for sharing files (I have never setup a webserver of my own), I was wondering if somebody knowledgable would venture to explain the differences, architectural or otherwise, between the Sheeva Plug and the Pogoplug? You know, just for completeness.
Thanks,
gsal
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also SP = only one drive
PP can handle a bunch
Pogoplug; 1TB iBook; 300Gig Maxtor OneTouch II; Dydex DX-UH227 USB Hub
Well, it's so happens that I work in Linux all day long and am very comfortable at the command line...csh, ksh or bash, etc. I do have an Ubuntu machine at home, too...but like I said before, I have never bothered to learn how to setup webservers and related applications (apache, mysql, etc)...so, that's why I was looking at Pogoplug and your answers have confirmed what I was suspecting.
Now, just to play devil's advocate for a moment here, what's up with that guy who seemed to have created an independent OpenPogo page to open the Pogo?...I mean, can you just may as well fall back to SheevaPlug? Or maybe such Openness is based on whatever Pogoplug already has...I am going to need to read up on that.
Anyway, thanks for your replies.
gsal
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The OpenPogo guy is adding applications to the Pogoplug using the ipkg package manager and appears to be targeting the Linux newbie who is not necessarily that comfortable with the command line.
The simplest way to add applications to the Sheevaplug is the debian apt-get package manager available through the Ubuntu repositories.
If you are comfortable, as you say, with the command line then the deciding factors are the cool file sharing of the Pogoplug vs the debug facilities and Ubuntu of the Sheevaplug.
Have you been to this forum :
http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php
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To add, Pogoplug has 256MB RAM while SheevaPlug Dev Kit has 512MB. Sheevaplug has an SD card slot, Pogoplug does not.
Ah... that helps account for why the prices are the same between the two (half the memory). Fair enough.
All that said about the hardware differences, I decided to get the PogoPlug because it comes with all it says out of the box and I'm still allowed to easily log into the PogoPlug and add my own applications.
I've been messing around with OpenPogo for a day now. It took 5 minutes to set up and I can install a bunch of available packages. Plus with the cross-compiler I was able to compile my own C/C++ program, copy to the PogoPlug, and run it.
All of this without even disrupting the pre-installed file sharing application. Cool stuff!
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Glad you like it Core. In case you want to compile stuff on the Pogoplug, gcc, make, etc. is all in the repository. Just set the ./configure --prefix=/opt so that nothing gets overwritten.
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