[Arm-netbook] GK802 for $70

[luke.leighton]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2013 21:54:24 +0100
> "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  a proper debian-installer, not a huge image file with pre-installed
>> packages that you don't actually want, and with someone else's
>> settings, account and password choices.  like it.
>
> Well for me it just meant a hassle of needing to find a HDMI to DVI adapter,
> then a keyboard and a power extension cord, then disconnect one of two monitors
> from my main desktop PC, mess around with connecting the GK802 into everything

 yes?  you have a full computer in front of you - what did you
expect!! :)  the fact that it's only what... 20mm x 8mm x 50mm should
not detract from the fact that it's a fully-functioning computer with
more processing power and memory than the average PC of even five
years ago!

 so now you have *two* computers on your desk. (btw i went through the
same hilarious "wtf" with the odroid-u2.  there, luckily, it has
ethernet.)

 but yes: the version of debian-installer i want to set up for the a10
variant will be booting over USB-OTG (g_ether).  so, you'd plug and
power it in a PC, and the plan is to enable busybox's telnetd and just
run with no username/password.

 minor inconvenience of having to set up routing (NAT) on the host PC
over usbnet, but that's not hard.

l.