[Showme-devel] Fwd: ShowMeBox Kick-off

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi all,

[keeping only Kris as Cc - all others now subscribed to list]

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2015-08-27 11:22:47)
> Quoting Kristoffer Rose (2015-08-27 07:12:04)
>> 3. Jonas, what do you need to find the ideal <$100 server hardware to 
>> use and create an initial Debian image for it, RSN?
[...]
> I have a [LIME2] with 1GB ram, Graham now has as a [LIME] with ½GB 
> ram.
> 
> Those boards are Open Hardware and work well even in strong heat and 
> powered by [battery], but memory might be too tight - especially if it 
> should run both java and a modern Xorg-based browser at the same time.

I am right now playing with a dirty-installed Beaker on my LIME2 - i.e. 
running both the java-based Beaker and an Xfce desktop with Icewasel.

It consumes ~400MB, so we should *not* need a 2GB board and even the 
cheaper LIME board may be adequate (e.g. by using less bloated browser)!


 - Jonas

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