Hi, I have had experience with a lot of them in the past. Deciding a board relies largely on cost vs how much are you willing to code. Is cost a consideration?.
The gumstix is a good option however note that the USB in that is a USB client (gadget) and not a USB host so it wont be able to use a hard drive or anything similar (if you want to log). This is a better option if you want a USB host. http://beagleboard.org/hardware It might also be overkill as its got opengl accelerator as well. However the USB host opens up a wide range of devices. Your other option, if size is not a consideration is to buy an openwrt capable router and install linux on there, this will give you linux on a network capable device with some limited IO ports using GPIO. Depending on the routeer type you might have to solder an RS232 connector to the board. This is probably the best cost to performance ratio for a network gadget since you can get them for under 50 bucks. http://openwrt.org/ A whole lot of routers are supported. And some of them even have USB host. http://wiki.openwrt.org/Hardware/ It uses opkg to update which resembles debians apt and ipkg from the handhelds linux. Only problem with this route is that if the flashing / install is not done right you might end up with a brick as there is no JTAG to reinstall on some of them. Regards, Murali ----- Original Message ----- From: "worms" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] embedded/gumstick/small form factor Linuxdevices >I am interested in this well, I want to get some very small, cheap and > low power devices that I can place on my network segments adhoc to do > diagnostics. > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Shannon Roddy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Anyone have any experience using low power (PoE?), small form factor, >> flash >> based linux emedded devices? I may have a use for a few, but don't want >> to >> blindly start procuring devices and testing if anyone can make >> recommendations. >> >> Thanks, >> Shannon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please delete the message and immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
