[aprssig] Via teams on Linux car PC kit
Gregg Wonderly
gregg at wonderly.org
Wed Oct 5 12:25:51 EDT 2005
Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
>
>
>>Jason Winningham wrote:
>>
>>>Has anyone played with any low power systems? I looked at the specs on
>>>this one:
>>>
>>>http://www.arcom.com/pc104-xscale-viper.htm
>>
>>These are fairly nice from a power consumption perspective. The 320M of RAM is
>>fine for non-graphics operations.
>
> Huh? I run Linux/Xastir on a PP200 laptop with 32MB RAM. Works
> great. Yea, I have to make sure that I don't have a bunch of
> processes running that I really don't use, but it does work.
My definition of "fine" includes spending my time doing what I need to do,
rather than spending my time working around limitations :-) Yes, I too could
slice and dice the kernel and running processes to minimize RAM use. Allowing
the X-Server enough space to run a full, active desktop is what I want. If you
go to an 8 bit scheme, and run at a reduced display size, then yep, it will be
possible. But, I tend to be lazy about customizing because it just gets to be
so tedious.
Gregg Wonderly
W5GGW
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