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-board.html
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