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Originally Posted by Sir Nobax
Nonsense, my stripped down WinXP installation (acting as a router) is consuming ~95MB (no swap) of RAM with most useless services still running. The installation is less then 400MB on a FAT disk (i.e.; uncompressed, no journal, no SSD wear (if you believe in that, i don't, but thats another story)).
Not speaking from experience with the Geode's, but I won't be surprised that a average nLite'd/XPLite'd Windows XP would run just fine. And by the way, I could be wrong, but I thought I had an PIII 500~600Mhz running WinXP back in those days, don't know for sure though  . (also, if i remember correctly Geode's have an higher IPC compared to the PIII's) |
Please don't take any of the following as me poo-pooing Windows. I firmly believe in using the best tool for the job.
There are several reason why one would/could not use Windows Xp on this particular board, even if you really wanted to. Assuming 256MB RAM was enough you would still have the issue of WIndows XP running with a GUI by default. Our ALIX board has no VGA. With Voyage Linux SSH is started as a service and we log into it remotely for configuration. Another issue would be the compact flash:Windows XP runs under FAT or NTFS, and there are no options (correct me if I'm wrong) to run the entire OS in RAM like Voyage Linux, thus using very small 512MB compact flash cards.
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Originally Posted by Sir Nobax
Regarding the OP's awesome device; This really makes me interested, especially since the price isn't too high (considering the endless possibilities). It could also serve as an pretty neat router/firewall if i'd stopped using it actively (although the lack of gigabit is quite a bummer).
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I hope you give it a go. The more users out there the better.
BTW, I have my WRAP board (the precursor to the ALIX) connected to a gigabit switch running Monowall firewall/router software. I get gigabit speed between my laptop and desktop just fine.
Cheers