| ID: | 3534 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:38:34 +0100 (CET) |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] PCB-RND on PIC32...?! |
| in-reply-to: | 3533 from John Griessen <jo...@cibolo.com> |
Meanwhile the production compilation with -O3 finished, took 43 minutes. On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, John Griessen wrote: > On 11/10/19 8:32 AM, gedau@igor2.repo.hu wrote: >> Just compiled svn HEAD on my N900 (arm cortex A8 @ 600 MHz, 256M ram, >> arch called "armel"). > . > . > . >> Usability is not very good out-of-the box, because there's no 3 mouse >> buttons, > > That really is portable! I wonder if a bluetooth mouse can be added to such > machines? Probably yes. I have an external bluetooth keyboard for the times I need to sit down and type a lot, and it works. > Is android running on the N900, or some other flavor of linux that is more > open? Android is not really a flavor of linux (although it is derived from Linux). I have no experience with pcb-rnd on android, but I would be very surprised if it ran natively. The real big thing with N900 is that it's running a real linux. You literally can get a shell and do things, without having to jailbreak anything. The default system, called maemo, is a Debian based distro. The only "rooting" step was that normally you are a plain unprivileged user and to get root, you have to install sudo. And that's when nokia says, "ok, you can do that, but warranty on the software is void then", which I find totally reasonable. So "rooting" the device is not even hard. The whole device (hw and sw included) feels like made by hackers, for hackers. Which is very different from how android devices feel. I've installed a debian chroot on it, which I mainly use as a way of virtualization (so I don't mess up the system that boots the device while I am tweaking the system). Once I'm in the debian chroot, it's pretty much the same as any other (desktop, laptop, server) systems I use. I run screen, mc, gcc, I use the same software for playing music that I use on my desktop. When I'm at home and need to do something on the system, like now compiling pcb-rnd, I just ssh into the debian chroot on the n900 because using a big tft and a standard keyboard is still better. Regards, Igor2
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