Yes ! Le père noël Squeak est en
avanc
La machine qui boot en Squeak est là...
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Subject: [ANN] Object Oriented Christmas (Squeak PC)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:23:28 -0800
From: Dan Ingalls
<Dan@SqueakLand.org>
Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers
list<squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org>
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers
list<squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org>
We three three elves (Michael, Ian and I) have been busy. We finally made
it through the challenges of booting Linux from Compact Flash, and I've
negotiated with my supplier (for weather stations) for a "Squeak
PC" configuration at a special price. Since it's a cool thing, and
seasonally appropriate, I thought I'd send out an announcement.
After unwrapping you get...
A black box that is just the right size for an LCD display stand
(1.75"x9"x11.5"). Also a 12v power supply that plugs into
the wall. Inside is a 533MHz VIA Mini-ITX motherboard with 64M of memory
installed. There are no fans in the box, and it still stays cool. On the
front is a slot that accepts a compact flash card, which appears to the
processor as an IDE disk drive. The Squeak PC is shipped with a 96M flash
installed which includes 1) A compact Linux 2.4 boot system, 2) A full
Squeak 3.6 (plus OSProcess and Games) with Linux VM, and 3) about 60MB of
free space (!). ON the back is a host of connectors that include stereo
audio in and out, network, 2 USB, RS232, mouse, keyboard, display, video
and printer port. There's much more about the motherboards at
http://www.solarpc.com/bepia.htm
The unit is complete and ready to boot. All you add is keyboard, mouse
and display. With no fans and no disk, the only moving parts are the boot
button and hte electrons. It is silent. The 12v setup is nice, since you
can buy a UPS for the price of a battery, or power it straight from your
car.
The price is $250.
The supplier is SolarPC.com. They make a specialty of Mini-ITX products.
Check out their web site at
http://www.SolarPC.com
or jump straight to the order page at
http://205.147.44.194/store/commerce.cgi?product=SolarPC
(The Squeak configuration is at the bottom of the page. If you get the
message "The identity certificate is invalid", just say OK and
proceed).
The Flash is set up for Squeak but, of course it could be anything else
that is happy with this Linux. Other squeak images should run fine (you
can import them via FTP, or a USB memory stick), and other compact
Linux-compatible systems should run fine as well. Of course you can put
in more memory, and use bigger Flash or even a hard drive, but we wanted
to make the SPC simple and cheap. If people get into this, we can start a
wiki page with useful info and fun hacks.
Ho, Ho, Ho...
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Dr. Noury Bouraqadi - Enseignant/Chercheur
Ecole des Mines de Douai - Dept. G.I.P
http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/noury
European Smalltalk Users Group
http://www.esug.org
Squeak: an Open Source Smalltalk
http://www.squeak.org
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