On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Timothy Pearson kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
Actually, TDE on an EOMA68
EOMA68 is a standard. you may be referring to the first computer card in the series, called the EOMA68-A20.
could be interesting, though I haven't really looked into what would be needed to precompile an image for it.
done already. tested the armhf packages - they installed and worked perfectly on an already-prepared debian/testing rootfs i had around. the speed and startup time was impressive.
i am considering deploying TDE on the 800-or-so cards going out on the crowdsupply campaign. if however qt5 or systemd is to become an integral part of TDE i would reconsider that decision. qt5 because it so heavy compared to qt3 that i would be deeply concerned about it over-burdening these low-power devices (qt3 is extremely light-weight), and systemd because of both the resource over-utilisation as well as the lack of accountability, security risks, design flaws and the many other factors which are well-known and do not need to be discussed further.
the A20 processor has only a 32-bit memory interface (unlike x86 systems which often have 128-bit-wide data bus bandwidth to DDR3 and in high-end systems have 256-bit-wide buses) and is only a dual-core 1ghz ARM Cortex A7. TDE - *as it stands* - therefore boots up in a reasonable amount of time, applications start up in a reasonable amount of time, and KOffice is, for example, extremely useable.
TDE basically, because it has *NOT* quotes moved forward quotes, is perfectly matched for the capacity and capabilities of low-power systems.
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