On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:51:25PM -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > I am playing around with Compaq's IA-1's which are little AMD K6-based > boxes with 4 USB ports, 16M of flash internally, an external compact flash > slot, 32M of RAM, wireless keyboard, sound, modem and a nice 10.1" LCD.
These are those little hingey things that were almost 5 bills at Office Depot? > They are going for around $60 on ubid these days or $99 from > tigerdirect.com and are very fun toys. I have hacked up the old Jailbait > distro to run nicely from the internal 16M flash (see > http://php2.chek.com/~rasmus), but this distro was not designed for this > thing and it is also quite dated. Netscape 4.7 keeps leaking memory and > dies and the whole thing is just too clunky. I'm on the lookout for Xterms, but that screen's probably too small for most of my clients, alas. Have you thought about some of the other distros designed for severly limited environments? Like the xterminal packages? Or even Trinux and it's ilk? How much do you want to do? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") -- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the message body. For more information, see <http://waste.org/mail/linux-embedded>.
