Yeah it takes a while to boot and halt, but my way of coping with it is
incredibly simple: keep it charged, and never turn it off. Its uptime has
reached two months recently, but then it ran out of power on Saturday. I
charged it, and turned it on again, and it's fine now. I don't use a GUI on
it - partly because the programs I use won't work on a machine with spec as
low as the NanoNote, and partly because I want to learn more about purely
CLI-based operation. In my experience, all the CLI apps work (except java,
which just hangs the system) and rogue (which needs an 80x24 display; I've
got 60x20 or whatever it is - it hangs the system because of it). X with TWM
or FVWM loads in a few seconds, but XFCE takes about five minutes. SIMH
works fine (well, altairz80 and pdp11 do, wanted to try vax but I don't
really want a vax simulator on there). I basically use my NanoNote as a
miniature laptop, for taking notes, a little programming, and exploring old
UNIX (what SIMH is there for).
I went with Debian because it's what I have on all my other computers. I put
a 16G uSD card in it: 64M for swap, the rest for storage (and Debian
supports ext4, too :) ). And it comes with GCC and whatnot, while compiling
for OpenWRT seems to require building the cross-compiler and system stuff,
which was quite ugly when I tried to do it.
The only problems I've had on Debian were swapping and keymapping (solved
ages ago now), passwords (solved when I apt-got dist-upgrade a couple of
months ago), and the keymap in X, which I haven't solved, but isn't
desperate. It would be nice if the keymap was right in X (because I want to
be able to use TWM/FVWM), but since there's no mouse and the display's too
small, I'd probably never use it if it did work.
Mark.
On 17/11/10 17:44, Cristian Paul Peñaranda Rojas wrote:
By the way, who actually uses OpenWRT, and what for? I just don't understand
why it can't be done with Debian to start off with; it's far more complete
(well, after an apt-get dist-upgrade), and will run more software.
I do, if i want a simple free of patent and with upstream support for
packages. And easilly confirable by Menuconfig (is easy for me it may
varies)
Sure, why not Debian?, i really din try it, was kind slow first time
i did,may be is better now. Some questions:
- how long take too boot (including loading a GUI)?
- how long take to poweroff
- what apps are working (including already ones that works on openwrt
or jlime). i mean music player, maps, dicionary, some basic games
May be you can tell us more about your experience, will be cool have it
well supported on the Ben.
In the other side is Jlime wich is based on OE, wich youw how you can
get X stuff running, and of course more than 10.000 packages compared
with around 2000 from openwrt
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