The Odroid XU4 with a New OS

Figure 1: The Odoid XU4 compiling and surfing at the same time.

Here is a short video of my Odroid XU4 “desktop” – a sort of light desktop which is surprisingly quick for its power draw. In the video it’s seen to be running Firefox with only a little lag, while simultaneously compiling (firefox itself) – on seven cores. Note the old hub below the Odroid, much bigger AND much older than the diminutive SoC/SBC. I purchased the hub in 1992 and it’s still working fine, albeit at 10 megabits/s (LOL).

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An SSD for the XU4

Figure 1: A pair of SSD drives

The XU4 (Odroid) is the device with which I’ve replaced the AMD64 desktop.   It’s a size reduction of about 20x.   It’s a weight reduction of about 20 pounds.  And, it’s an energy reduction of about 20x, plus or minus.

One of the first things I needed to do was to build an image for a USB thumbdrive, as a substitute …

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Another SoC/SBC First Look

Figure 1: A recent addition to the SoC herd is the xu4 from Hardkernel … (click to enlarge)

Posted 06/30/2016:

I love to get the brown non-descript boxes in the mail, especially when those boxes contain more SoC/SBC investigative opportunities. My gray-scale picture may not do it justice, but the XU4 that I’ve just now added to my lineup is the most powerful SoC/SBC yet …

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