[Cuis-dev] VectorEnginePlugin: parts in motion

[Joseph Turco]

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 <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>:

> 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.)
> 
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