Linux deployment: never a better time
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu May 10 17:33:58 EDT 2012
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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