On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:44:55 -0500 Gustavo Andrés Angulo <woakas@gfc.edu.co> wrote: > > Hi, I would like to know what the minimum requirements to install > emdebian on a system. Depends on the flavour of Emdebian to be used, the kind of functionality required, how much work you want to do and the architecture of the device. The memory / CPU of any particular machine are not that relevant - what determines your Emdebian usage is the available storage space on the device. As such, there are no minimum requirements. If it can run GNU/Linux it can run Emdebian - it just depends how much work you want to do and how much time you have to sort out all the problems. > example > > 200Mhz CPU > 128M Ram Sounds like a standard x86 architecture? If you think that's a low power machine (probably isn't or shouldn't be a problem for standard Debian if you choose the right packages), then this section of the front page of the Emdebian website is directly relevant: "Emdebian is based on Debian and therefore uses Debian packages. Some Emdebian installations can make lower demands on the machine hardware but this would be because the Emdebian installation is based on packages already in Debian that are intended for such purposes. Using the same packages with a Debian installation is likely to be little different to the same packages with an Emdebian installation. Therefore, an old PC with a reasonably large hard drive (or a capacity to use a modern multi-gigabyte hard drive) is not likely to benefit from Emdebian. However, a low resource embedded device without the capacity for adding more internal storage would benefit greatly from an Emdebian installation. If there are other packages that would suit low resource machines, Emdebian developers are often willing to assist in getting the packages into Debian and thereby, Emdebian. " http://www.emdebian.org/ It all comes down to storage, not CPU power or even RAM. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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