Help me to find a cheapest Embedded board which supports Linux.

You need to provide a bit more information.

Some questions to get you started:

Do you need your embedded board to be battery or mains powered ?

If battery powered, what kind of power budget do you have ?

Do you have constraints on the physical size of the board ?

Must it be x86 based, or are lower powered alternatives such as ARM suitable ?

How much memory do you need ?

A couple of starting places for boards:

Google for Mini-ITX. There is also Nano-ITX, but at this time, that is a work of fiction. (Nano-ITX has been announced for 18 months, and we may finally see shipping product during the summer.)

One place for Mini-ITX is

One place for an ARM based board can be found at

HTH,

Simon.

hi,

Thank you for the sugession. Is it possible to port tinyX to the board. Do you have any experience with this board and if yes, what kind of product u had developed please tell me how easy it is to use for development.

Thanks in advance...

Main powered

no

Any of the processors supports linux and great community support with many totorials.

Hardware spec:-

Requirement:- It is possible to port tinyX, some network utilities, custom x-clients developed by users, hardware interfacing examples, multimedia etc.

To expand the possibitily of Embedded Linux usage it require a low cost embedded board and hence every one can access it and they can produce their on products of wide range including games, multimedia, custom hardware interacing or any custom application according to the users.

If anu suggestion please specify.

Thank you,

With regards, Daskin

You should probably look at the Mini-ITX boards that I pointed you to earlier, using something like a Compact Flash to IDE adapter if you really do need a flash based boot.

Been x86 based, they draw a lot of power (by embedded standards), but as you are not using batteries that won't be a problem. On the plus side, they are cheap. In the UK, the lowest board in the range costs 65-70 UKP (you need to add memory, a power supply and a boot device).

I am not familiar with tinyX, but it appears to just be a cut down X-Windows, so I don't see why you can't get it working on Mini-ITX. Google to see if others have already done it.

Simon.

Rocky boards are fairly easy to get and come in a wide range from 386 SX up. I have some Rocky R318 boards that have linux in Flash and all they do is take input from ethernet and convert it to another protocol and squirt it out, they work fine.

Could someone here plz tell me a cheap embedded board that supports linux and available in INDIA !!

Tonnes of thanx in advance, karthik bala guru

Unfortunately, I think you need some experience with electronics (which I don't have...yet), unless you just use the other sticks to "stick" together ;-) to build a full app.

Dunno, I might buy some and have a play, but I've never used one. They have a forum and stuff.

Luke.

Probably considering there's a lot of RAM 32-64Mb and a huge flash 8Mb (I think).

It'll be easy to fit something like that into it. Although, you would have to provide a video output of some sort, which is where the electronics will come in as AFAIK there is no video card for the gumstix.

But if you can get a chip, you can probably build one yourself.

Luke.

Soekris makes some nice boards that are supported by Linux and have been used to build all sorts of things.

Check out this one in particular:

Would you settle for one with tech support available in India?