On 09/22/2016 03:07 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:07 AM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de wrote:
As a user, I would expect to be sold a router housing and a router EOMA68 computer card. I would expect the router housing to be able to host my desktop card as well. I would also expect the router card to work in my desktop housing.
provision of power is about the common denominator: i already outlined the example where use of the OTG port and HDMI cable would allow the CPU-Card-With-The-Desktop-OS to be useful and functional. anything else that you get (such as a USB-based WIFI adapter or USB-based Ethernet port) is a "plus" but is in no way guaranteed and should in no way be *expected*, either.
Yes, exactly.
the other way round is unlikely to work and, if you did not then seek out (at your own expense and initiative) a replacement OS, replacing the Router OS with a Desktop OS, then that is your lookout. also: router cards are quite likely to be 120 to 500mhz single-core MIPS processors with on-board RAM restricted to potentially as little as 8 MB (yes 8 MEGABYTES - that's eight MB). if you are *genuinely* expecting a 120mhz processor with 8mb of RAM to be capable of running a Desktop OS, you are (to put it mildly) completely delusional.
basically it's necessary to apply some common sense, here.
No, no, that’s not what I meant. What I meant is that when plugging in the router card into a desktop housing, it should still work *as a router* (as in, bootable and maybe a dumb switch). The housing may not have the required ports of course for proper usage as a router and the router OS is probably (hopefully, security-wise) not usable as a desktop OS, but it should show something like a tty on the display.