[chbot] What board and OS to use

[Mark Atherton]

Hi Wallace,

https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B08796NB62

Several reviews seem positive; main criticism seems to be speed, but 
since you are building a collection of independent G-code (or the like) 
processors your choice seems reasonable (much as I hate the Celeron).

Trimmed down Win7 also makes sense to me. I have a (commercially) 
trimmed down copy of XP around here; it occupies 98MB of RAM, and runs 
quite well for moderate tasks, even on a converted thin client.

If you need keyboard and mouse per station, have you considered using 
older laptops ?

If not, then possibly orchestrate your collection of headless machines 
via RDP from a central machine with keyboard and mouse over WiFi - RDP 
isn't likely to be very burdensome for your application, and main 
payload is G code. I would have thought you would only be using RDP for 
progress and status monitoring once a job has been launched.

Anyway, keen on your approach and please keep us updated on progress.

Regards,

Mark










On 29/12/2021 8:32 PM, Marshland Engineering wrote:
> As much as I want to go to Linux, it is just not an option.
> 
> I'm looking for 4 + pc and an option to add in the future. All same os and
> programs.
> 
> These look quite good.
> 
> US$170
> 
> https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001515053632.html
> 
> Now has anyone had any experience with Win7 Lite or similar ? Win 10 if I
> desperate.
> 
> There is a program called NTLite that can trim down the os but it would be
> better if some one had some experience with it as I'm in the dark here.
> 
> https://www.ntlite.com/
> 
> Cheers Wallace
> 
> 
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