Cubox? Linux 3.7 released, bringing generic ARM support

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:01:01AM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
> I got an eSATA cable for Christmas, Tiger Direct apparently gave away a
> nice 7 foot cable for $8. Sweet! At least now it has decent storage for my
> bittorrent lawlessness. ESATA won't hotplug due to kernel power saving
> moves by Cubox devs, you have to reboot, but otherwise sweetness.
> 
> It is actually a pretty good computer in general. The problem comes with
> web browsing when you get beyond a couple of tabs open in Firefox and all
> the scripts start to pile up in the background. I guess that's a
> combination of memory and lack of hard FP? I am not an expert... :-)

The CuBox does not lack hardware FP.  Now if you are not running armhf
on it, then that may mean you aren't using it.

Firefox's code base is a huge pile of shit though, not that anyone
seems able to write an efficient html engine that does CSS.  It may
be impossible.

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Len Sorensen
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