[armedslack] I think I am missing something?

[Stuart Winter]

> As soon as I get my sheeva loaded with armedslack (this weekend) and I get
> it on the 'net, let me know and I should be able to create and account for
> you to ssh into to play. Just don't break anything... ;-]

Heh.  Thanks for the offer -- although usually I try to keep my hands
out of other people's systems ;-)

> Ok, this is off-topic for the armedslack list. Maybe I start a netslack list
> that centers around netbook thin client implementations...

The power issues aside, wouldn't you need a small footprint Slackware OS?
 it's been a while since I tried to slim down a
Slackware installation  -- around version 8.1 -10 it used to be pretty
easy since there were less packages, but there are many new packages since
then and many of them depend on each other; so I'm not sure how easy it is
to create a working slimmed down Slackware at the moment.

> Can't wait 'till I have the pocket change to order my open-rd dev boxen...
> whoot!

Mine arrived today.  I've been checking to see Marvell are with getting
the OpenRD support into the main line kernel; and I discovered what
appears to be a fork:
http://code.google.com/p/openrd/
http://groups.google.com/group/openrd
http://groups.google.com/group/openrd/browse_thread/thread/b4981ecb40628a00

The SheevaPlug support, AFAIK, came directly from Marvell and was
always available from Marvell's git tree during development.
I'll have to do a bit more digging around to find out why it's been
forked.  I hope that the development work does end up in the main line
kernel otherwise these devices end up being a waste of money since the
kernel patches become unmaintained.

-- 
Stuart Winter
Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org