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#46 Post by snayak »

Is there any such low priced board with x86 core? which will run normal puppy linux...
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#47 Post by rokytnji »

snayak wrote:Is there any such low priced board with x86 core? which will run normal puppy linux...
Not yet but in the works

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/80 ... i2-form-fa

But you'd be better off with

http://www.tinydeal.com/Wintel-Windows- ... fgodtksDWg

for a few pesos more.
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#48 Post by snayak »

Wow...really?

Many thanks rokytnji, for your info.
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#49 Post by snayak »

But they all use HDMI? no VGA interface? And wintel has windows 8 with it? Linux can't run on it?
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#50 Post by starhawk »

Wintel and Wintel clones will run Linux. Google it ;)

For HDMI, you need a converter box. In the US they run about $10 at most...
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#51 Post by gcmartin »

This will wet appetites: A Teeny Tiny Linux LAN Computer
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#52 Post by rufwoof »

I'd like to see a low power device with a net plug and netboot option combined with 1GB memory, with the capacity to boot a puppy.

i.e. power on, runs through netboot sequence and picks up a boot image being served from your desktop puppy that's running PXE server ... and boots up puppy, and then switches over to being a PXE, HTML and Voice communications server itself. With TV display output, mic input it could be left as a always on lower power device attached to the TV for voice, file, text communications - a bit like a internet phone.
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#53 Post by greengeek »

rufwoof wrote:I'd like to see a low power device with a net plug and netboot option combined with 1GB memory, with the capacity to boot a puppy.
Me too. And it needs a power input from a solar panel so that it boots itself when the sun comes up. Just waiting for the right hardware...
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#54 Post by musher0 »

greengeek wrote:
rufwoof wrote:I'd like to see a low power device with a net plug and netboot option combined with 1GB memory, with the capacity to boot a puppy.
Me too. And it needs a power input from a solar panel so that it boots itself when the sun comes up. Just waiting for the right hardware...
Close enough?
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#55 Post by gcmartin »

I think the VoCore supports Netbooting (PXE booting of LAN PCs) by loading its TFTP libs and telling, thru its menus, to "serve" this along with its normal DHCP services. DNSMASQ is used for this in the shipped OS.

Thus, it has great LAN services for supporting what anyone would want at home as well as its WAN ability that comes with it.

One of the limiting factor, with solution like this, is RAM.

:lol: And, that price! So expensive. :wink:
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#56 Post by dancytron »

The VoCore is a very specialized piece of equipment. It runs OpenWrt, which is a open source software that acts as a router firmware. It isn't a standard linux type of distribution.

Look at the specs:
Operating system: OpenWrt
System Memory: 32 MB RAM
Storage: 8MB SPI Flash (for firmware)
32 MB of RAM and 8 MB of storage. Enough to be a router or some other kind of network node. Maybe to listen for a command and turn something on and off. Not enough to really do anything else.
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#57 Post by rokytnji »

musher0 wrote:
greengeek wrote:
rufwoof wrote:I'd like to see a low power device with a net plug and netboot option combined with 1GB memory, with the capacity to boot a puppy.
Me too. And it needs a power input from a solar panel so that it boots itself when the sun comes up. Just waiting for the right hardware...
Close enough?
It's Arm though. Like a Pi on steroids. Not Intel which Puppy thrives on.
Samsung Exynos5 Octa ARM Cortex™-A15 Quad 2Ghz and Cortex™-A7 Quad 1.3GHz CPUs
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#58 Post by musher0 »

rokytnji wrote:
musher0 wrote:
greengeek wrote:Me too. And it needs a power input from a solar panel so that it boots itself when the sun comes up. Just waiting for the right hardware...
Close enough?
It's Arm though. Like a Pi on steroids. Not Intel which Puppy thrives on.
Samsung Exynos5 Octa ARM Cortex™-A15 Quad 2Ghz and Cortex™-A7 Quad 1.3GHz CPUs
Ah.
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#59 Post by snayak »

I see, we have many such mini PCs based on x86. But can they run conventional linux distros? Like all arbitrary puppy linux...
Or they just run some special linux customized for those boards?
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[Fatdog 720 on Intel Pentium B960 with 4GB RAM]

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#60 Post by John Roe »

One supposes his questions are thus.

•How is this any different, or advantageous, over the Raspberry Pi?
•Is it made by folks in wage-slavery?
•What does it do the Raspberry Pi product does not?
•How do Allwinner's processors stack up against AMD, Intel, ad infenitum?
•Has anybody built a rig to attempt to run Puppy Linux on this?

I do not know much about the Hummingbird, but basic business mercantilism
says one must make more money than spent to maintain a profit margin.
If they soon do not crank out a product, assuming they haven't, like Icarus' melted wings, it shall die.
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#61 Post by John Roe »

snayak wrote:I see, we have many such mini PCs based on x86. But can they run conventional linux distros? Like all arbitrary puppy linux...
Or they just run some special linux customized for those boards?
That is a very good point. If it cannot run Puppy or BSD, not for me.
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#62 Post by don570 »

Finally some good news for the A20 chip. A team has created the Cedrus fully-GPL-compliant accelerated video encode/decode libraries.

This allows 1080p video to be shown without worrying about licenses.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micr ... tes/cedrus

http://linux-sunxi.org/Cedrus/libvdpau-sunxi
http://linux-sunxi.org/Cedrus#Current_status

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