[chbot] What board and OS to use

[Charles Manning]

Why is Linux not an option? I'd rather find a way to work around that
restriction.

Firing up XP on a new box would be illegal as it would be in violation of
the licensing agreements. You cannot buy new XP licenses.


On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 9:49 PM Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi Wallace,
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> https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B08796NB62
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> 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).
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> 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 ?
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> 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,
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> Mark
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> 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.
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> > I'm looking for 4 + pc and an option to add in the future. All same os
> and
> > programs.
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> > These look quite good.
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> > US$170
> >
> > https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001515053632.html
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> > 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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