R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl wrote:
>Oh, Not everybody has recent hardware. It would be a pitty if the
>low-end would be forgotten: I have two "older" computers that no
>longer work well as workstations that end up their lifecycle as
>development machines. They have the "new cards with driver that crashes
>the machine" type of workload....
>
>So, Gerrit, your list should start at
> 16 to 64M RAM
> P-100 to Ppro-200 processor
> 0-2G disk
And speakings as one of the people working with Linux on embedded boxes,
I'm thinking of even smaller systems, such as a minimal data-collection
system with just 2 MB of flash, 4 MB of RAM, and an ethernet port or
serial port to send data upstream using IP. And then you have the ucLinux
people aiming for even smaller targets.
But it might be neccesary to stay with a stripped Linux-2.0 for the really
small systems or fork a parallel development tree in the future since both
aiming for really large servers and tiny embedded systemst might be a bit
too much. Do one thing and do it well.
/Christer
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