[Cuis-dev] VectorEnginePlugin: parts in motion

[Phil B]

Depending on what you're going for, you might also look at something like
the PineBook Pro https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ (pro: very open and
inexpensive, con: not as performant as most Chromebooks, hard to get right
now)

On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 2:31 PM Joseph Turco via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> 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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