Qi-Hardware Nanonote group purchase?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org>wrote:
> > On 09/05/2010 07:52 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> > >
> > > I have 2 systems running recent OpenBSD releases for SSH portals.  One
> > > is a Sun Sparc with 96 MB ram and the other is a VM with 32 MB
> > > allocated to it.  I'm not sure I could do that with any major current
> > > Linux dist.  Maybe Slackware on i386.  Open + Net BSD installs seem
> > > similar to Slack.
> >
> > I have Debian Lenny running on a Linksys NSLU2 (32MB RAM).
> 
> And I run Ubuntu on a SmartQ 7 mid, an ARM based tablet w/ 256 MB and X11.
>  And apt-get works.
> 
> Is there a Debian based dist for the MIPS (?) chip in the Bennote?

There are two Debian MIPS ports--big-endian and little-endian:

    http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/

There are multiple ways of installing the little-endian MIPS build
of Debian documented on the Qi Hardware website:

    http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Debian

Caveat:

    http://sdschulze.dnsalias.org/~soeren/content/debian-nanonote-kernel.txt

    Debian is compiled with FPU support required.  Our processor
    doesn't have any.  Luckily, Linux can emulate it in software.
    Unluckily, this is very slow[...]

I guess that might explain why Debian felt a little more sluggish on
my FreeRunner than any of the OpenEmbedded-based systems did, too....

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