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Plasmamac

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Posted: 01:00pm 04 Jun 2023

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https://t.co/MhOHkO12Gl

Linux sbc

Its a linux powered sbc maybe usefull for anyone here
Edited 2023-06-04 23:02 by Plasmamac

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Posted: 03:48pm 04 Jun 2023

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It is unbelievable what a rapid development is taking place here ... $9 wow ... no words.
Thanks for sharing.

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Posted: 04:41pm 04 Jun 2023

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homa said It is unbelievable what a rapid development is taking place here ... $9 wow ... no words.
Thanks for sharing.

According to the hype , ' RISC V ' should give
more ' bang / buck ' due to being ' open source ' ..

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Posted: 06:37pm 04 Jun 2023

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Could be interesting for mmbasic, not for linux. With 'up to' 64 MByte ram, it will be hard to do something practical with linux. Remember the raspberry pi's have 512M....8G. And the 512 models are not advertised as candidates for a graphical UI.

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Posted: 07:09pm 04 Jun 2023

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You can run Linux in MUCH less memory... but obviously not the "desktop GUI fully-featured" version.

For a uC, use a small or tiny (uC-suitable) configuration of Linux.

At the tiny end, BSD UNIX (UNIX being the inspiration for Linux) runs on a PIC32 with 64K RAM (yes, 64K). Read up on RetroBSD if you like.

As hardware has become so cheap, though, probably just don't bother with anything small...

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Posted: 08:21pm 04 Jun 2023

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Volhout said Could be interesting for mmbasic, not for linux. With 'up to' 64 MByte ram, it will be hard to do something practical with linux.

I have a number of linux devices running openWrt with 4MB memory and reporting sensor readings. The latest version of openWrt wants 8MB. (And with ESP devices having WIFI and now WebMite I no longer need the Linux intermediary, so haven't installed openWrt in several years.)

JohnS said You can run Linux in MUCH less memory... but obviously not the "desktop GUI fully-featured" version.

Right. Non-GUI Debian ought to run fine, and other options are available. There may well be a light GUI version which would run with 64MB.

(EDIT: Hmmm, maybe not Debian now, possibly depending on how it is configured.)

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Edited 2023-06-05 06:29 by lizby

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ice2642

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Posted: 08:37pm 04 Jun 2023

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Hello,

lxde and jwm can run with this amount of memory. but not expect the performance of one xeon or m2 chip with a rtx4090 :)

Very cool this board, tkz for sharing. Maybe it will be a good host for the vice emulator.

MMBasic 5.0707 on PicoMite VGA

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