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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Nick Hardiman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Why are EOMA68 computer cards useful to the current rash of devops guys?
>
> When a developer bangs out business-level services, the fine detail of boot 
> loaders, CPU packages, device drivers and power consumption is taken for 
> granted. The dev probably checks the kernel is new, and that’s about it. Or 
> is that unfair?
>
> For starters, I’m thinking:
>
> You carry your development environment with you. No database sync, no remote 
> cloud access, no leaving a sensitive computer in the organization. It’s not a 
> killer advantage - since BYOD became a thing, this is already happening for a 
> lot of laptop-carrying people.

 huh.  that never occurred to me.

> It’s local hardware, not remote virtual machines. It may be a good fit with 
> running containers, which means continuous deployment, configuration 
> management, and all that microservice lifecycle stuff. If you want to get 
> less commercial and more R&D, you could replace Docker with Xen and 
> unikernels.
>
> I’m also thinking, basically, any software development that can be done on a 
> Cubietruck, can be done on an EOMA68. Similar specs, similar OS support, and 
> so on.

 yeah exactly.  and it's more elegant.

> What am I missing?

 cable set and usb devices (usb eth) maybe a totally-cut-down version
of the micro-desktop, a sort-of hybrid variant of the break-out board
and micro-desktop, just to get access to the usb ports...

l.

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