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Inexpensive USB LCD With Linux Drivers For LCDproc

Posted by kdawson on from the on-the-side dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Windows Vista SideShow technology shows some promise. But what about Linux devices that can present snippets of information independent of the main display? Here's a review of the picoLCD-4x20, a relatively inexpensive USB device ($50) that supports both SideShow on Vista and LCDproc on Linux."

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  1. Re:Or maybe... by Kawahee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    According to the article you posted, support for *nix is patchy:

    Windows XP (the drivers for Vista were under development at the time of our tests; the support for alternative OSes was not even on the agenda

    Furthermore, using an entire monitor defeats the entire purpose of these devices. These are small, compact devices that are meant to show some vital information at all times with minimum power drain. Running a monitorless server? Put the server load onto one of these things. The server's a spam filter? Put the number of rejected emails per hour on it.

    It doesn't serve as a substitute for performance alerts, but for $40 it's not bad for real-time monitoring when you don't have a monitor or terminal available

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  2. Re:That fine article is old. by jmpeax · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it's easy enough to spy on the USB port and get the protocol

    Your definition of easy isn't the same as mine!

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  3. Why? by symbolset · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because you could do the same job with a 320x200 USB photo frame for $50, and do it with color images?

    Was that not the answer you were looking for?

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