Neil, Thanks for your comments, I will take a look at the other possibilities. Andy --- On Fri, 26/12/08, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [LUG] Single Board Computer To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, 26 December, 2008, 3:18 PM
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.
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