Linux deployment: never a better time

[Richard Gaskin]

Peter Alcibiades wrote:

> Perhaps the thing that Linux can offer a developer which is unique is the
> ability to package an app into a turnkey appliance.  Any sort of appliance
> running on general purpose minimalist hardware, and running something like
> Slitaz or a stripped down Debian version, and it will be fast, free and
> stable, and will look to the end user like an appliance.  You need so little
> memory and disk that small solid state drives are quite usable.
>
> The difference getting away from bloatware makes is amazing.  I am currently
> running Debian with xfce and lightdm on an old thinkpad, having banished
> gnome and kde and all of their works, and boot time is super fast and its
> super responsive.  You can get even faster on even less hardware running
> slitaz.  Worth a thought.

Indeed it is.  I've been pricing components for a system to run specific 
LiveCode apps, and with a modest Via C7 processor I have a parts list 
that totals just US$170, with a 32 GB SSD.

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  Richard Gaskin
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