I'm pleased to say that the old R51 is now a pretty capable - if a little pedestrian - 3D printer control box at Protolab. It's running Lubuntu 16.04LTS, which is surprisingly nice.
On 2016-04-24 10:29 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > Seems easy. The hard part is behind you: realizing that there is a > problem and what it is. > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE> All it needed was 'forcepae --- forcepae' at the end of the initial Live CD boot, and it picked that up for running and the installation. > How much RAM does it have? How much can it have? That's the main cause > of machines becoming useless to me. 1.5 GB, and that's the maximum. > I don't have a feeling for ByteMark. Sorry, I miss-spoke - it's byte-unixbench <https://github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench>. I wanted something that would test a little more than raw CPU speed so I could triage old machines. > | *: including an Intel/Arduino Galileo, which was utterly dire. > > Not a surprise. But sad / funny. Is there anything interesting about a > Galileo? Is its performance respectable for its power consumption? Not really. It runs Arduino sketches very slowly (like a few 10s of analogRead() calls every second). It draws about 15 W, and the fanless Quark SOC (400 MHz, Pentium Pro-ish, complete with FDIV bug) makes air above it shimmery-hot. It has no display capability. For reasons best described as "dunno", I have it set up with a mini-PCIe wireless card. It run Yocto Linux, which give immediately password-free access as root. It's twice as expensive as a Raspberry Pi, and gives an overall Byte Index of less than 1/4 of an original, single-core Raspberry Pi. cheers, Stewart --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
