The boards are already in production by some company iirc. Dosdude1 on YouTube did some upgrades on various M series machines

Ram is on the soc, the SSD isn’t really an SSD. It’s just nand chips on a pcb. The controller is on the soc.

Unironically, Chrome OS Flex might be the way to go. Dead simple, uses A/B updates and is just that, for people who just need something to work.

I use Bunsenlabs and like it a lot

Docsis 4.0 is still cable, idk about other things

The atom cpu in this has a powervr sgx545 gpu which is barely supported by anything. Ubuntu 12.04 has some support but it’s only 2d acceleration.

But the last release for it will be in December.

There is the fork mentioned in the forum post here.

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

I don’t use Syncthing and don’t have an Android phone so I can’t really speak for it in terms of functionality.

Id make it 2 or 3 gb. That being said, 1 gb is fine for such a light install. I have a similarly specced pentium M machine running modern debian with OpenBox. For heavier tasks, it was hitting swap (using a web browser). Upping it to 2 gb ram fixed that.

Edit: this also came with an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 gpu which probably has a bit more support than the PowerVR gpu in the Atom.

There’s quite a few. I have bunsenlabs helium installed on a 32 bit pentium M laptop. It’s very usable, for a 20 yo single core machine. For basic things, it’s still fine. I do have some gpu acceleration though which is a benefit.

I use bunsenlabs helium on my old vaio a series laptop. I use a 32 bit non pae build bc it’s a pentium M that might not support pae. It uses a window manager over a desktop environment.

I’d recommend using a 32 bit distro as they tend to take up a little less ram.

Also I’m on a 4200 rpm PATA HDD. It has 2 gb of ddr ram. It’s slightly too old to get ddr2 which is unfortunate.

Ears are made of bone?

OpenBox but that’s a window manager, not a DE.

I was thinking embedded clients would be the bigger issue. Stuff like POS machines, that sort of thing.

It’s 2 4 gb sticks and so I’d have to hope that it supports 16 gb of ddr3.

As for the ssd, that’s in the cards eventually. But since it’s an aio Pc, it’s an utter pain to work on

It’s actually not shit for a hdd which confuses me. It’s just an Hitachi Travelstar hdd. I’ve used faster (on paper) machines that don’t feel as responsive as that computer.

It’s an i5-2430m powered AIO PC with a HDD and 8 gb of ram (its only saving grace). It’s fine for what my dad uses it for, which is largely web browsing for work and excel.

I made that comment to my mom this morning. Also I have tried Linux on that machine and its weird. It has a very old digitizer that sort of works. (Sony Vaio AIO). Disabling it is a #1 priority.

He’s technically inclined enough to install it himself entirely.

Other issue is the wireless card. It’s an old Qualcomm card (not ath9k).

We’ll figure it out once windows 11 stops working. Or if the drive dies.

I need to try that actually for my old laptop. It blue screens if it updates past 1809

As of 15 min ago, my dad has decided to install windows 11 on his 12 year old home pc. Oh boy.

At least on my pavilion, it’s just one simple daughter board for one of the USB ports. It’s the one I use the most. I can replace it easily if it breaks. The pcb is also very simple so it ends up being very cheap.

The square shaped one threw me for a loop the first time I worked in a computer with one.

Very Andersen powerpole esque