Tiny Core Linux

Off-Topic => Off-Topic - Tiny Tux's Corner => Topic started by: alu on November 25, 2009, 06:42:05 AM

Title: Plugcomputers
Post by: alu on November 25, 2009, 06:42:05 AM

what do you think about plugcomputers? tc/mc seem to fit extremly well with the concept. has anybody experience in plugcomputing?

as an example: SheevaPlug, TonidoPlug

Title: Re: Plugcomputers
Post by: gerald_clark on November 25, 2009, 10:07:32 AM

Those are ARM processors, not i386.

Title: Re: Plugcomputers
Post by: althalus on November 25, 2009, 12:31:45 PM

Which just means you'd need to take the time to recompile for the kernel for ARM. I think a TinyCore for ARM would be a good idea moving forward, if this whole "Netbooks must have ARM processors!" thing kicks off.

Title: Re: Plugcomputers
Post by: gerald_clark on November 25, 2009, 01:26:02 PM

Well, they already come with Linux, so you should be able to just start compiling.

Title: Re: Plugcomputers
Post by: alu on December 07, 2009, 04:42:03 AM

thanks for the feed back; my idea was to install tc/mc on it in order to have one ultra-portable computer that you can plug everywhere, but i didn't realize that it was not a x86 cpu

Title: Re: Plugcomputers
Post by: bmarkus on December 29, 2009, 03:35:45 PM

Quote from: alu on November 25, 2009, 06:42:05 AM

what do you think about plugcomputers? tc/mc seem to fit extremly well with the concept. has anybody experience in plugcomputing?

as an example: SheevaPlug, TonidoPlug

TonidoPlug is a customized SheevaPlug running Tonido applications. It is $99, same as SheevaPlug DEV KIT US version, UK/EU is few bucks more.

Title: Re: Plugcomputers
Post by: alu on December 30, 2009, 12:55:49 AM

here is a nice review at dw on the sheeva plug:

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091221#feature

it would be definitely amazing to have tc/mc for the ARM architecture, it would enable much more usages of such a computer (not only as server, but also as workstation and portable pc)

Title: Re: Plugcomputers
Post by: bmarkus on December 30, 2009, 01:15:38 AM

I'm seriously thinking on to buy a SheevaPlug Dev Kit. It looks interesting toy, the only negative point found till now it is missing a floating point unit.

Title: Re: Plugcomputers
Post by: alu on December 30, 2009, 09:24:20 AM

i think i saw a same observation as yours in the comments of the distrowatch article mentioned above, but redactors said that the sheeva plug has a floating point... you probably have to check again

Title: Re: Plugcomputers
Post by: bmarkus on December 30, 2009, 11:39:07 AM

Quote from: alu on December 30, 2009, 09:24:20 AM

i think i saw a same observation as yours in the comments of the distrowatch article mentioned above, but redactors said that the sheeva plug has a floating point... you probably have to check again

Doesn't matter, I have ideas how and where to use it. Decision made, I will order it :)

Title: Re: Plugcomputers
Post by: alu on December 30, 2009, 12:20:39 PM

you're lucky man, please report your experience in the forum, i am interested about what you can (and can't) do with it