ThinCan is the name for a attenuate applicant bogus by Estonian cyberbanking architecture start-up Artec Group. The ThinCan remained almost alien alfresco Estonia until 2006, back a contempo ThinCan abundance was called as the accouterments abject for the Linutop, a arrangement apparatus that abundantly angry the bazaar for failing accretion platforms.1 The ThinCan was additionally commercialized by SmartLink beneath the Revnetek cast name.
Sunday 11 December 2011
Hardware
Functionally, all ThinCan assembly models action agnate features:
Front panel: 1/8" stereo audio, USB ports.
Back panel: Ethernet port, VGA output, PSU connector.
Aesthetically, the aboriginal ThinCan was an exercise in affected looks, with brushed aluminum end caps and a tubular aluminum appearance that featured alternating patterns of adorning serrations forth the apparent of the tube. The tube came corrective in one's best of several cellophane colors (black, aphotic blue, ablaze blue, purple, red) for an accurate "Jetsons" feel.
After an aboriginal ancestor based on a custom x86 core, acknowledging PS/2 keyboard and mouse, the belvedere was redesigned about an NSC Geode SC2200 acknowledging alone USB peripherals. An alternative on-board SmartCard clairvoyant absorbed to an internally-mounted USB anchorage fabricated the aboriginal ThinCan an burning hit on the bounded market, due to an Estonian legislation dating from 2001 that allowable the arising of a civic Electronic ID agenda to all citizens and their use to admission abounding accessible services.
Still, while the affected architecture accustomed some absorption in the IT press, the prohibitive amount of machining an extruded aluminum tube with intricate adorning serrations prevented the architect from accomplishing bartering success with this aboriginal model.
In 2003, the aggregation revised the architecture appear a simpler cost-effective collapsed boxlike appearance for their DBE60 archetypal (initially commercialized as the ThinCan SE). Aside from the accession of a alongside printer port, the DBE60 is functionally identical to the aboriginal ThinCan and congenital about the aforementioned NSC Geode SC2200.
In 2005, this architecture was adapted for the AMD Geode LX700-based DBE61 model, with USB 2.0 provided by a CS5536 accompaniment chip. The alongside printer anchorage was again removed, abiding the architecture to an all-USB configuration. Linutop SARL retained this archetypal as a starting point for their Linutop-1 product.
In 2007, the DBE61 architecture was upgraded with Gigabit Ethernet support. The architect calls this the DBE62.
In 2009, the DBE62 architecture was reconfigured to use SO DIMM anamnesis and IDE Compact Flash media. The architect calls this the DBE63.
Front panel: 1/8" stereo audio, USB ports.
Back panel: Ethernet port, VGA output, PSU connector.
Aesthetically, the aboriginal ThinCan was an exercise in affected looks, with brushed aluminum end caps and a tubular aluminum appearance that featured alternating patterns of adorning serrations forth the apparent of the tube. The tube came corrective in one's best of several cellophane colors (black, aphotic blue, ablaze blue, purple, red) for an accurate "Jetsons" feel.
After an aboriginal ancestor based on a custom x86 core, acknowledging PS/2 keyboard and mouse, the belvedere was redesigned about an NSC Geode SC2200 acknowledging alone USB peripherals. An alternative on-board SmartCard clairvoyant absorbed to an internally-mounted USB anchorage fabricated the aboriginal ThinCan an burning hit on the bounded market, due to an Estonian legislation dating from 2001 that allowable the arising of a civic Electronic ID agenda to all citizens and their use to admission abounding accessible services.
Still, while the affected architecture accustomed some absorption in the IT press, the prohibitive amount of machining an extruded aluminum tube with intricate adorning serrations prevented the architect from accomplishing bartering success with this aboriginal model.
In 2003, the aggregation revised the architecture appear a simpler cost-effective collapsed boxlike appearance for their DBE60 archetypal (initially commercialized as the ThinCan SE). Aside from the accession of a alongside printer port, the DBE60 is functionally identical to the aboriginal ThinCan and congenital about the aforementioned NSC Geode SC2200.
In 2005, this architecture was adapted for the AMD Geode LX700-based DBE61 model, with USB 2.0 provided by a CS5536 accompaniment chip. The alongside printer anchorage was again removed, abiding the architecture to an all-USB configuration. Linutop SARL retained this archetypal as a starting point for their Linutop-1 product.
In 2007, the DBE61 architecture was upgraded with Gigabit Ethernet support. The architect calls this the DBE62.
In 2009, the DBE62 architecture was reconfigured to use SO DIMM anamnesis and IDE Compact Flash media. The architect calls this the DBE63.
Software
SC2200-based models cossack application a proprietary loader alleged Clara that was developed by Artec itself.
All LX700-based models can natively cossack application Coreboot. This started as a Geode GX anchorage developed by AMD for the OLPC prototype, to which Artec added Geode LX support. That cipher was afterwards adopted and added able by AMD, afterwards the OLPC switched to the LX700 for its assembly models. This Coreboot anchorage was acclimated on the SmartLink archetypal and on several custom Artec models configured as arrangement appliances.
Meanwhile, both Artec's PXE-boot and Linutop's USB-boot DBE61 models, additional all DBE62 and DBE63 models, use a General Software BIOS
All LX700-based models can natively cossack application Coreboot. This started as a Geode GX anchorage developed by AMD for the OLPC prototype, to which Artec added Geode LX support. That cipher was afterwards adopted and added able by AMD, afterwards the OLPC switched to the LX700 for its assembly models. This Coreboot anchorage was acclimated on the SmartLink archetypal and on several custom Artec models configured as arrangement appliances.
Meanwhile, both Artec's PXE-boot and Linutop's USB-boot DBE61 models, additional all DBE62 and DBE63 models, use a General Software BIOS
Operating System
The aboriginal ThinCan ran on Windows CE and launched into an RDP applicant for Windows Terminal Services.
DBE60 models appear with either the aforementioned RDP applicant as the aboriginal ThinCan or with Etherboot abutment for UNIX terminal services.
DBE61 models appear with either a BIOS with PXE abutment optimized for LTSP or with a BIOS for USB booting Linutop's own Linux distribution. Meanwhile, SmartLink preloads their DBE61 models with their own able firmware alleged R-BOX that can be user-configured to barrage into either an RDP applicant or into a Web kiosk - both of which are implemented application Free Software apparatus - and which makes use of the Coreboot port.
DBE62 models accept a BIOS that aboriginal attempts booting from USB and, if no bootable USB media is found, again attempts PXE booting - about accumulation the cossack options of Artec's and Linutop's models into a distinct configuration.
DBE63 models run on Embedded Windows XP and barrage into a Web kiosk
DBE60 models appear with either the aforementioned RDP applicant as the aboriginal ThinCan or with Etherboot abutment for UNIX terminal services.
DBE61 models appear with either a BIOS with PXE abutment optimized for LTSP or with a BIOS for USB booting Linutop's own Linux distribution. Meanwhile, SmartLink preloads their DBE61 models with their own able firmware alleged R-BOX that can be user-configured to barrage into either an RDP applicant or into a Web kiosk - both of which are implemented application Free Software apparatus - and which makes use of the Coreboot port.
DBE62 models accept a BIOS that aboriginal attempts booting from USB and, if no bootable USB media is found, again attempts PXE booting - about accumulation the cossack options of Artec's and Linutop's models into a distinct configuration.
DBE63 models run on Embedded Windows XP and barrage into a Web kiosk
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