Anybody seen or used this PC?

[airmcn_3]

http://www.picotux.com/techdatae.html

[Unterhausen]

that's neat, but I don't see the need for the ethernet port. At $100 euro, an Imote2 might be a better option even though it's bigger. Gumstix still seems like the way to go for most of us.

[bmw330i]

It's getting pretty dated. I remember reading about them years ago. 60mhz ARM7 is the core of the Paparazzi Autopilot.

My own reading suggests it's better to run something on "bare metal" not an OS then your software on top of that for performance. The Sun SunSpots run a JVM on "bare metal" for this reason. http://www.sunspotworld.com/

What did you have in mind for the "picotux"? Flying WebServer?

[airmcn_3]

It's getting pretty dated. I remember reading about them years ago. 60mhz ARM7 is the core of the Paparazzi Autopilot.

My own reading suggests it's better to run something on "bare metal" not an OS then your software on top of that for performance. The Sun SunSpots run a JVM on "bare metal" for this reason. http://www.sunspotworld.com/

What did you have in mind for the "picotux"? Flying WebServer?



Not particularly, blue tooth does not transmit as far as we would like.

I was curious more then anything, I ran across a new PC called the Space Cube. Tiny little thing looks rather interesting and found this one in the process.

Thank for the reply.

Chris

[zik]

The Sun SunSpots run a JVM on "bare metal" for this reason.
For what it's worth the JVM is basically a small OS in its own right. In fact it's a more heavyweight OS than most of the embedded OSes, doing all the things those OSes do and more besides.