[CoLoCo] For Sale: Linux mini-pc $40

[Darrin Goodman]

On Dec 3, 2007 8:28 AM, phillip tribble <phillip.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjrsx/index.html
>
> I was wondering if anyone would like to buy that device for $40. It is
> really advanced for me because the CPU does not support floating point
> . You would have to recompile X_Linux to get this working and It was a
> real pain. I could not test other distros on here because I do not
> have a USB cd-rom drive. If anyone is interested in this Mini-Linux
> pc, please let me know.
>
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For the sake of educational purposes, I am curious to know how the
lack of floating point support will affect one's ability to run
general software (Firefox, Vim, Abi-Word, etc) on such a system.  From
a programming perspective, I can understand how certain functions
within an application might be affected without support for floating
point variables, but just from an every-day usability perspective, how
might one's experience be affected using a machine that does not
support this?  Based on the hardware specs, I can see that you would
want to run a light weight OS, but what other limitations do you see
without floating point support.  Thanks in advance!

- Darrin