As a MN owner I read this topic a zillion times a day for updates. I might just post this even once or twice to let you guys know im here as well
Flare does my Mn for me and am happy with his work.
Point is, i have a Raspberry Pi model B (512ram) hanging around in the corner catching dust atm after a failed attempt to get a media player in the bedroom (worked but not used hehe).
Is it possible to get a distro on the PI, update with the firewall and all whats needed and run the MN myself? Then just hook it up my router and open port 9999 to it
My thanks goes to the dev team for all its excellent work in the past and in the future!
EDIT: My activity is now: 2! Woot
I remember quite some time ago someone asked a similar question. I think that Raspbian cannot cope with the dependancies needed for the daemon to run. But things change, maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in?
This is something that I have investigated quite a lot but from a Bitcoin perspective. I am using 1 raspberry pi running minepeon to solo mine BTC and wanted to use my spare pi to just run bitcoind (with plenty of storage). I've managed to get bitcoind to compile fine on ARM but I need to reboot it daily due to memory issues and hangs.
Along the way I did manage to get Bitcoin QT to run in raspbian but it was virtually unusable. If I find some free time (admittedly unlikely) I'll see if I can get darkcoin QT to compile and run. I expect that it will be as bad if not worse to run than bitcoin on the Pi though.
You're better off with the daemon over the extra GUI memory usage. I see that it had memory issues and hangs previously but I've got to imagine Darkcoin's QT would be many times worse.