Chuck Payne wrote:

Oops.

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Chuck Payne wrote:

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Guys,

Please read the following like it is increable, only thing is I wish we could replace ubuntu with openSUSE.

Since I am not a programmer, what would it take to put openSUSE on this? What I think would be great is we could  do like the OLPC, maybe. Change $50 for one, then a person get ones, and child gets the other.  Just a thought.

Pup --

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a-usb...

128Mb RAM is too little I suspect. I don't think YaST will run in less than 196M. Anyway, decent secondhand PCs with comparable performance are available on ebay for about USD25, maybe a little more. :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:26 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:

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http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a-usb...

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128Mb RAM is too little I suspect. I don't think YaST will run in less than 196M.

Anyway, decent secondhand PCs with comparable performance are available on ebay for about USD25, maybe a little more. :-)

As it ships pre-installed I doubt we need a full fledged yast around this to get an installer running. It's rather 'fixed' hardware, so a simple dd before shipping the sticks might very well be worth it.

Good point. The question (perhaps) is, how do those ARMs perform? I have some 5-6 year old laptops with 1.5GHz Celerons and 512Mb RAM - with 10.x, they were still a very capable work platform, but with 11.4, they're much too slow. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7:36:32 AM Kostas Koudaras wrote:

2011/5/6 Per Jessen :

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Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:26 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a- usb-stick-pc-for-25-2011055/

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128Mb RAM is too little I suspect. I don't think YaST will run in less than 196M.

Anyway, decent secondhand PCs with comparable performance are available on ebay for about USD25, maybe a little more. :-)

As it ships pre-installed I doubt we need a full fledged yast around this to get an installer running. It's rather 'fixed' hardware, so a simple dd before shipping the sticks might very well be worth it.

Good point. The question (perhaps) is, how do those ARMs perform? I have some 5-6 year old laptops with 1.5GHz Celerons and 512Mb RAM - with 10.x, they were still a very capable work platform, but with 11.4, they're much too slow.

What about if we install 11.1 or 11.4 with Enlightement? we could try and experiment on it, I have some people that would like to try it and see if it's possible, I will send an e-mail to see if I can buy one or two so that we can experiment on that.

Maybe you could try with http://sites.google.com/site/petitelinux/download wich is based on openSUSE 11.4 with Enlightenment. Petite Linux is an openSUSE build, created using susestudio.com, featuring the Enlightenment (e17) Desktop Environment Features: Fits on a (live) cd, just insert the cd, reboot, try it out No need for choices, it works as-is No clutter, just functionality

If something like that is possible we could organize a hackfest inside the oSC, what do you think about that?

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/Per

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Am 10.05.2011 16:50, schrieb Richard (MQ):

Does SuSE studio support ARM - in which case may a port is a possibility?

afaik their isn´t any support of ARM. I contacted the Studio guys via the feedback button and will forward the answer thanks -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker@hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

Richard (MQ) wrote:

Unfortunately they only seem to provide x86 builds and this gadget is ARM based. (in fact, I see only 686 which rules out many older PCs too).

[OT] Very old PCs - older than Pentium Pro. I still have a K6-2 somewhere, but it's hardly relevant hardware anymore. (maybe except some embedded systems?) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (24.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org