[luau] learning the hardware end

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Mon Mar 3 19:12:01 PST 2003


On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:34:19PM -1000, Luis aka Rigpa wrote:
> I've been thinking (oh no! everybody run! he's been thinking
> again!!!), if you guys get the 1500 166's, would an embedded
> version of Linux be the way to go on those? I had a 166 (died
> two weeks ago) and it was painfully slow running Debian.
> That's where the thought of using embedded Linux came from. It
> would be perfect for resource-challanged computers (486s, slow
> pentiums, old laptops).

Can you explain more by what you mean by embedded Linux? These
days, embedded simply means small to me, ala http://soekris.com/.

-Vince



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