<div dir="ltr">Depending on what you're going for, you might also look at something like the PineBook Pro <a href="https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/" target="_blank">https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/</a> (pro: very open and inexpensive, con: not as performant as most Chromebooks, hard to get right now)</div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 2:31 PM Joseph Turco via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st" target="_blank">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I was hunting for a netbook but they are hard to come by. Would make a nice portable smalltalk device. The closest I could find are the 11 inch Chromebooks. Aug 8, 2021 2:29:43 PM Douglas Brebner via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st" target="_blank">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>>: > On 08/08/2021 16:06, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev wrote: >> I like simplicity and think about "value added". Where can I add value? >> >> Doing device drivers, setting up page tables, interrupt code, writing file systems and network drivers and testing them et cetera is _not_ where my interests and abilities reside. >> >> So why not use a minimalist Linux "OS shim". Like using Git. Leverage other people's work and do fun things in Smalltalk! >> >> As Smalltalk pre-dated _other_ window systems, there is a FrameBuffer display option, vm-display-fbdev. >> >> So one can use a minimalist Linux, like Alpine Linux, which uses BusyBox for basic utilities and MUSL in place of libc. It was made to be a clean & secure router solution. You can also "startxfce4" if you install XFCE, but it boots into a console. Armbian Linux in another good, reliable solution for SBCs. >> >> I will write something up in the wiki after my latest fix gets released. >> >> Basically, one used command line arguments or shell variables to set up for mouse/keyboard/framebuffer and things just work. > > Interesting. I have a couple of ancient netbooks which may make nice Cuis Machines. > > (They have the horrible GMA500 GPUs which make them not very good for almost anything else.) > > > -- > Cuis-dev mailing list > <a href="mailto:Cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st" target="_blank">Cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a> > <a href="https://lists.cuis.st/mailman/listinfo/cuis-dev" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.cuis.st/mailman/listinfo/cuis-dev</a> -- Cuis-dev mailing list <a href="mailto:Cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st" target="_blank">Cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a> <a href="https://lists.cuis.st/mailman/listinfo/cuis-dev" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.cuis.st/mailman/listinfo/cuis-dev</a> </blockquote></div>