Comments on: Plasma Embedded

By: Ivan Čukić » Embedded Plasma continued

Ivan Čukić » Embedded Plasma continued — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:23:39 +0000

[...] are some news concerning applets for the embedded Plasma I mentioned earlier. There are two new plasma applets in the playground [...]

By: Michael Krog

Michael Krog — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:42:01 +0000

@wildan

The alix board can be bought directly from pcengines.ch.
For my address in Denmark, the price is 118 EUR incl. case, Power Supply and CF card.

By: Ivan Čukić

Ivan Čukić — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:11:35 +0000

@Jones Lee Well, on this setup it works just fine. I do intend to strip the KDE to just Plasma and a couple more things, but it works as good as it should even with full blown KDE 4.1.

By: Jones Lee

Jones Lee — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:04:48 +0000

I think KDE is a bit too overweight for the motherboard. I got myself on the VIA PX10000 (/w 1GB RAM) and it doesn’t run that fast with GNOME or KDE. OpenBox or other light weight WM do the job better. I wonder if someone could come up with a light weight KDE version..

By: Boycott Novell » Links 18/07/2008: GNU/Linux at NASA, Nicaragua

Boycott Novell » Links 18/07/2008: GNU/Linux at NASA, Nicaragua — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:02:19 +0000

[...] Plasma Embedded My job was to install Linux on it. And I did just that – Debian GNU/Linux with KDE 4.1 beta which is in Debian’s experimental repositories. I hooked the system to my screen so that you can see what it looks like (although it was a bit odd to hook something like this to a 19″ screen). It behaves surprisingly well – the system is responsive and works very well (with all fancy Plasma animations). [...]

By: Ivan Čukić

Ivan Čukić — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:12:35 +0000

@wildan To be honest, I have no idea - for both questions. According to Google, this exact model (ALIX.1C) is 100EUR.

By: wildan

wildan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:31:40 +0000

Wow, this is great, where i can buy the embedded system? and how much is the price? thanks..

By: Ivan Čukić

Ivan Čukić — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:38:16 +0000

@cruzki
No fancy graphics card here – Geode platform contains a graphic card. Ram on this model is 256MB.

@Steven
This is the same setup as you have in some routers (albeit a bit more powerful – it has usb ports…).

The installation could be done directly by booting from USB flash or external CD, and installing on a compact flash.

I had a bit different approach – I installed it on a virtual machine and then put the image file onto the compact flash.

@jamasi
Well, I don’t exactly want a kiosk system, but it could be done /by hand/ even if there is no kiosktool.

By: jamasi

jamasi — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:49:03 +0000

Well for kde3 I’ve used kiosktool to restrict the possibilities of the user (very useful for surfstations). But I think kiosktool has not been ported to kde4, yet.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:11:35 +0000

This is awesome. I’ve been wanting to try something like this to build a Linux MCE or MythTV front end. I knew ASUS was putting Linux on some (soon to be all) of their motherboards. I’ll be really interested to see the progress on this. Do you have any documentation as to how you went about installing Linux on the motherboard?