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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:15:31 +0000 (GMT) ANDREW PRATT <am.pratt469@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > This is the first post that I have made. I have been using Linux for about three > years now using Slackware and Slax. Fancy Debian instead? > I am sending this on a single board computer that is actually intended for > embedded applications. > I bought it from RS Components, it comes as a single circuit board approximately > 90mm x 90mm, with a 133MHz fanless 486 processor and 64MB of RAM. If the board has any internal storage (or can be fitted with such) - even just an SD card, you could run Emdebian on such a machine without an external hard drive. Things are very early stages but Emdebian Grip is one option - the much smaller Emdebian Crush isn't available for x86 at this time (and will take months to become available on anything except ARM). > I pre-installed Slackware 11 on an old 20GB hard drive using another PC and > transferred it to this computer. So what storage does the board contain? > The power consumption is very low, not including the monitor it takes 1.7 amps at > 5 Volts. That isn't low power - that's a power-sucking-beast! ARM generally does a lot better - down to <1W, not >8W - even some x86 netbooks come in at substantially less than 8W. What's it doing with all that power? Try putting that board on a set of batteries. Ouch. > I have an web based application in mind for it using a PIC processor and the Apache web server. It has four com ports and ethernet. No USB? > I am using the Lynx command line web browser, X is a bit ambitious! Not that ambitious, ARM processors can handle XFCE or GPE in as much RAM. > Anyone else with a similar interest? http://linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.emdebian.org/ http://balloonboard.org/index.html Just a few of my similar interests. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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