On Jul 19, 12:30 pm, Jerry McBride <jmcbr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> > Dual-core PPC SoC drives 55
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> > | Freescale is sampling a pin-compatible version of its PowerPC-based
> > | MPC8641D system-on-chip (SoC) that is claimed to consume 27 percent less
> > | power. The 1.0-1.25GHz MPC8640D offers dual e600 cores, a 37 percent
> > | lower price, and an optional Linux board support package (BSP), says
> > | Freescale.
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> >http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9489013821.html
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> Embeded is sooooo cool... but yet so costly. I long for low cost, cheap,
> SBC's that you can build a low cost cluster out of... say for the same cost
> of a medium cost desktop... like $300.00 (US)...
Funny you should say that.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/artigo/
I bought one, and am happy with it. I wish it took 2Gig (is does but
only sees 1G) and it would be nice if you didn't have to do a little
metal work to get the SATA cable out of the box.
I have Fedora 9 on it. SuSE works but won't get the graphics past
generic VGA. Fedora does much better. Perhaps I just don't know
enough about SuSE repositories.
After getting this, I dropped off 4 desktop hulks at the recycler.
> The above mentioned is heavenly... no doubt would be "most excellent" with
> linux... but the shear cost of the thing would make it undesireable.
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> I still look for i586 (k6-2 or k6-3) mother boards and cpus for my "embeded
> needs". Far, far cheaper.
The Artigo is about $300, barebone desktops systems can be picked up
for less.
It is much better than the $1000+ for a true embedded system.
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> Jerry McBride (jmcbr...@xxxxxxxxxx)
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