On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Feb 7, 2016 3:22 AM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> things like >> the PINE64 above it has a SoC attached network but not storage. > > Both SATA (real TB+ disks) and Ethernet (external Wi-Fi AP antennae) are > icing-on-the-cake we will both strongly consider. > >> As is stands at the moment some of the best cheap devices for server >> style devices is AllWinner A20 devices (CubieTruck, BananaPi and >> friends) and i.MX6 devices (Wandboard, CuBox-i and friends) > > Hugely helpful. > > Key criterion for offline/remote deployments: does this accept 128GB MicroSD > cards, so 2016's developing world $50-100 "knowledge hotspots" increasingly > now become very real? (Aside: 256GB MicroSD cards will be part of this well > before 2020, apparently beyond the capability of most of these SoC's.) > > Peter, does Fedora 24 have a shot to one day run on the "$19" Pine64 Plus?! > Even if it's ambiguous whether it can truly contain 2GB RAM as advertised, > Pine64 claims to run up to 70C which is very promising if true. ($15 Pine64 > contains 512MB, and $19 "Pine64 Plus" contains 1GB RAM. Their 2GB RAM story > is very attractive, but may be marketing vaporware for now?)
Yes, I've got one awaiting for me on my return to London. Kernel isn't upstream, nor is u-boot, I'm not sure how big the patches are, I'm hoping it'll all be landable in F-24. > Or...would you recommend other ruggedized platforms to run Fedora, for > schools/libraries/clinics needing this in place by January 1st 2017? > (Thankfully size does not matter. Cubox is very cute, and we will use it if > it's the most rugged, but physically larger units are also fine too. > Certainly Fedora remains a priority for now, given schoolserver.org's > obvious OLPC legacy +) Basically I'd want a specs set, I'm not sure why you'd want to use a 128Gb SD card over an actual SSD or HDD, the later are a lot more robust. There's literally 100s of possible devices that would possibly meet your needs, what would be great is a list of must haves and a list of nice to haves and from that I could give a list of possible options. _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
