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storage options for EOMA68
by Nick Hardiman 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

I have to break these things down so I can get them into my neanderthal head, so my apologies if this is obvious to everyone already. Is this a reasonable summary of the storage options for EOMA68? I looked at some old photos and the EOMA-68 page, and I reckon these are the data storage options. By data storage I mean memory, disk space, or - to talk oldskool - any input/output device. EOMA68 data storage options --- 1. micro-SD card 2. USB flash drive (AKA USB stick, pen drive, external NAND) 3. internal NAND 4. mechanical hard disk 5. Solid State Disk file transfer speeds -- 1 is the slowest, 5 is the fastest. If you want to run something that thrashes the storage, like an e-mail server, stick the files on a disk. data storage capacity -- 1 is the smallest, and 5 the biggest. Using a micro-SD card is roughly the same as using as a small cloud server - enough space to store the OS, a bunch of applications, and have some left over. If you want to run something that chomps through storage, like a database server, stick the files on a disk. sockets for attaching another mass storage device -- USB2 There's a micro-USB socket on one side of the board, and another USB interface via the PCMCIA socket (or whatever you call the big pin connector housing). If you want to connect your Edison Cylinder Phonograph to your EOMA68 card, USB it up first. SD/MMC beside the USB socket SATA III via the PCMCIA socket I just realized I’ve been dropping the hyphen from EOMA-68. Oops. links -- old photos http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/news/ EOMA-68 page http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA-68

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EOMA68 printing and gimp and libreoffice videos
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/2318 here y'go wolfgang --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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cedrus 1080p on A20 working perfectly
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

even better, it's been added within a couple of hours to parabola! https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/commit/?id=fb03f508cc4674e6b310410929e… video of the video out shortly... eh how does that work? ;) --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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EOMA-68 laptop Keyboard support improvement pushed
by Albert ARIBAUD 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Hi all, I have gone ahead and pushed my latest round of improvements for keyboard support in the EOMA-68 laptop EC firmware. The new feature is support for modifiers (ctrl, shift, alt, GUI). Previously, these were sent as key codes, now they are sent within the modifier. For those to whom this is pure gibberish, it basically means that now "shift-a" *will* show as "A" (unless you've hit the Caps Lock key, of course, in which case "shift-A" will show as "a"), Alt-tab *will* cycle through your apps "Ctrl-C" *will* break that running process in your console, etc. Basically, the keyboard is now as functional as any other USB keyboard (except for two keys on the AZERTY matrix which seem to differ wrt the QWERTY matrix; that's a trivial issue and precisely the kind of thing I've initially set out to find and fix). I've also made some less visible changes, mainly to optimize GPIO access (for which there is still some improvement simmering gently here). Amicalement, -- Albert.

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Another mention on the Puppy Forum.
by Christopher Havel 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Worth a look -- I don't *think* one needs a login to view the post -- could be wrong tho. If I am, I'll mirror it. Also, I don't think the poster knows about that thread I posted, either. I'll link him to it in a minute. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=916157#916157

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Article in SoylentNews
by Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Hi, After a failed attempt, I tried again and it's just been published now: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/08/01/083258 (They removed the direct link to the crowd-funding campaign, but it's mentioned prominently and linked from the articles). I will try to reply to comments as best as I can. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo(a)gmail.com>

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EOMA68 help vote this up (3d printing article)
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

http://support.all3dp.com/forums/282794-general/suggestions/15482961-do-an-… could people please help vote this up and put in some comments, they'll be able to assess it, it also helps that there's an article previously published. l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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gcompris
by Wolfgang Romey (hier) 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

Great, that you tried ist and published an update, which I will publish on diaspora*, ... One question: In the video you said, that there is no sound. Is it right, that the CM108AH USB Audio with stereo headphone socket is part of the laptop-hardware and not of the eoma68? Wofgang -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: wolfgang_romey(a)toxme.se Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.

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developer advantages of EOMA68
by Nick Hardiman 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

Why are EOMA68 computer cards useful to the current rash of devops guys? When a developer bangs out business-level services, the fine detail of boot loaders, CPU packages, device drivers and power consumption is taken for granted. The dev probably checks the kernel is new, and that’s about it. Or is that unfair? For starters, I’m thinking: You carry your development environment with you. No database sync, no remote cloud access, no leaving a sensitive computer in the organization. It’s not a killer advantage - since BYOD became a thing, this is already happening for a lot of laptop-carrying people. It’s local hardware, not remote virtual machines. It may be a good fit with running containers, which means continuous deployment, configuration management, and all that microservice lifecycle stuff. If you want to get less commercial and more R&D, you could replace Docker with Xen and unikernels. I’m also thinking, basically, any software development that can be done on a Cubietruck, can be done on an EOMA68. Similar specs, similar OS support, and so on. What am I missing?

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Game Console Website
by Alexander .S.T. Ross 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

just came across it http://www.ubrew.it

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