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Re:Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012) by amelius on Saturday April 27, 2019 @04:58AM (#19764605)
I guess it also needs an e-ink screen, otherwise the screen would still draw a lot of the power.
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Re:Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012) by IgorPartola on Saturday April 27, 2019 @08:36AM (#19765208)
How fast are eInk displays nowadays? Like what kind of refresh rate are we looking at?
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Re:Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012) by mftrhu on Saturday April 27, 2019 @07:30PM (#19768302)
Not much more than a few Hertz, AFAICT. It should be enough to use a terminal - someone even installed X and ran XFCE on a Kindle, but it looks pretty weird.
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Re:Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012) by dkudriavtsev on Monday April 29, 2019 @05:54AM (#19777038)
They actually run X by default. They use the Awesome window manager.
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