Linux on a Vortex86 processor

[meng]

Thanks, Steven

I found this, Review: DM&P/Icop eBox 4300
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Review-DMPIcop-eBox-4300/
"...A year or so ago I spent $100 on a thin-client just to see how close it could come to meeting my desktop needs. Called the eBox 2300, it sports 128MB of RAM and a 200MHz S3 SoC chip that provides 400 "bogomips" running Linux. Install Puppy Linux, or Debian with fvwm instead of gnome, and it's barely adequate. Then you try running a browser -- even Opera -- and find yourself running for the laptop in your briefcase, or postponing those tasks that you can. And the sound is 8-bit mono..."

My friend had already narrowed the distro to DSL or Puppy Linux.
So now, he can add Debian and X-Linux to his options.

Thanks again.

Meng



-----Original message-----
From: steven meyer steven.meyer-bdq14YP6qtRg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:04:46 -0500
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Linux on a Vortex86 processor

> 
> On 27-Jan-11 12:53 PM, meng wrote:
> > Hi Len
> >
> > Thanks for the prompt response and the info.
> > I had suggested a minimal install with Debian or he could try the minimal distros.
> >
> > I have to agree with you, not my choice of hardware.
> >
> > Meng
> >
> I have one of these which I installed with Debian (I forget which
> version).  I remember having a lot of trouble with the network driver. 
> It's roughly equivalent in performance to the Compaq I bought around
> 1995.  Nice form factor though, with space for a small hard drive.  
> Pity the manufacturer did not keep up with the improvements in technology.
> 
> Steven
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