On 02/03/2017 06:32 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > Inspired by the recent discussion of installing Debian on smartphone. > > I'm thinking of getting one of the tiny-format PCs like the Intel "Compute > Stick". They're mostly ARM-based systems with a video out and two or three > USB ports, and often WiFi and Bluetooth, powered by a standard micro-USB > port.
CuBox-I from SolidRun seem to fall in the class of devices you are looking for. For the installation details look on Debian's wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort/CuBox-i or consider Raspbian images. > > I like the smallness, quietness, low power consumption, and inexpensiveness > of this class of device. > > Does anyone have experience installing Debian on such a device--not > necessarily the Intel one, but something in that class? If I could have an > ideal device it would have at least 4 gig of RAM (even better, 8). Storage > could be minimal, because external drives are cheap these days, too. Well, that's just a computer, why there should be problems installing Linux :) ?