On 2014-12-29 06:45 AM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
Intel certainly has not ignored these low power, small form factor SoCs. … http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/galileo-maker-quark-bo...
The (rev 1, at least) Galileo is a disappointment. Its prime purpose appears to be to generate heat. It's neither a tremendously useful small computer (up there with Pentium 2 performance) nor a usable Arduino clone (port polling in the few tens of Hz). If I must find an application, it could replace Y2K-vintage industrial PCs (the Galileo's mini PCIe slot is nifty), or be /slightly/ less power hungry than using an ancient PC as a firewall. I briefly ran it as the world's slowest dogecoin miner, but it's now just gathering dust. If anyone wants it (less the impressively fast wireless gubbins I rigged up for it), let me know. It can run Debian, but I'm not sure if it should. I do like the look of this new SolidRun board. Maybe I could use it to finally retire my SheevaPlug. cheers, Stewart