From time to time one might find an expansion kit for the 5720 ONLY on
eBay HP discontinued those last November. The 5500 and 5700 5710 ones
haven't been around that I can find for quite some time, though once in
a while a thin client with one will show up on eBay.
All of these, even the ones with only 128 Meg of Ram, work with
AstLinux, as long as you don't tax it too much. A couple of calls at
once work well.
John Novack
mgra...@mstvp.com wrote:
I have Astlinux running on HP T5700 series (5710, 5720, 5730) which were
1 GHz Transmeta CPUs, 256 MB RAM (1 SODIMM) and 256 MB Flash DOM.
These models BIOS will only accept a 512 MB stick of RAM, but that's
plenty. Later models will take a 1 GB stick of RAM.
A year ago I had no problem buying the optional expansion sides for $30.
These allow you to add one PCI card. I made a pfsense box this way, also
a host for my Slim Server (Logitech Squeezebox) music library.
Here's a write up describing the music server project:
http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2009/01/how-to-diy-music-server-using-freenas-slimnas-and-an-h-p-t5700/
Given that HP moved to a different form factor for thin clients that
expansion kit may be harder to find now.
Michael Graves
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] BeagleBoard anyone?
From: Peter Loron <pet...@standingwave.org>
Date: Tue, September 22, 2009 12:31 pm
To: novacks...@gmail.com, AstLinux Users Mailing List
<astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:59 AM, John Novack wrote:
Mark Phillips wrote:
Anyone tried using a BeagleBoard from digikey?
http://www.beagleboard.org
For $150 it's worth a punt!
Mark
Isn't that kind of expensive??
Given the HP thin clients going for a song on eBay. Update them with
a Transcend larger flash and they run AstLinux well.
Some even have a PCI slot, though the expansion parts are rare, and
some have expandable ( beyond 128M ) memory, all have an Ethernet
port, 4 USB ports, a Serial and VGA, and many have a PS/2 keyboard
port as well.
Will AstLinux work with an ARM processor??
John Novack
The BeagleBoard looks pretty interesting, but as John said, is spendy
compared to what you can get elsewhere. Also there is the added
complication of an ARM-based CPU.
Over time, I'm sure more linux distributions will have ARM builds are
first class citizens, especially as the ARM-based netbooks start
penetrating the market.
John: which models of the HP thin clients have you had success with?
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