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.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com
LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv
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