AdvLinux for i486SX Manual
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1. About This Manual
Thank you for using Advantech product. This manual is a very detailed
account of AdvLinux-i486SX. This document may be copied and distributed
in any medium, either commercially or non-commercially, provided that
the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), the copyright notices, and the
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in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those
of the GNU FDL.
2. AdvLinux for i486SX Overview
Advantech Embedded Linux for i486SX is an embedded Linux developed for
Advantech UNO with i486SX CPU with 2.6.26 kernel. The system is a
migration production from Debian 5.03. The text mode, graph mode or
development mode can be chosen to install. Its major functions include:
all system-required shell commands, ftp server, telnet, dhcp client,
graph operation based on X-window and development environment.
User can develop the user mode application with Debian 5 and transplant
the developing results to UNO. To develop the kernel mode module, user
can only compiles it in UNO.
2.1. Support devices
UNO-1140, UNO-1140F
2.2. Main Features
Here we list some important new feature in AdvLinux-i486SX and gave a
brief introduction.
Support i486SX CPU.
AdvLinux-i486SX supports the EVA i486SX CPU without FPU.
Provide development environment
Although the AdvLinux-i486SX is a embedded Linux, but it support
basic development if user can choose to install the development
environment
lightweight desktop environment
The desktop environment of AdvLinux-i486SX is not the gnome or KED,
it user a lightweight desktop named fluxbox, it will boot up the Linux
quickly and need less resource.
