Interesting announcement

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 05:54:17PM -0500,  wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:43:43PM -0800, William Park wrote:
> > This brings up one of my pet peeves...  I can download .iso files for ARM or 
> > MIPS.  Then, what?  I don't have motherboard that I can play with.  Eg. For the 
> > longest time, I want to try Slackware version for ARM processor.  The only ARM 
> > hardware I can buy is "pogoplug" computer which has only USB and RJ45 port.  
> > Pretty much useless as desktop computer.
> 
> qemu comes to mind.
> 
> Also for hardware that can be bought, then openrd-client is pretty decent.
> sata ports, lots of usb, vga, serial, ethernet, 1.2ghz arm, 512MB ram.
> 
> I expect in the next year or so to see a number of tegra 2 and tegra 3
> devices, which will be rather impressive dual and quad core arm devices.
> 
> For mips, well there is things like:
> http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-GDNBL10USK006-Netbook-Operating-System/dp/B0027IS8AM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248683312&sr=8-1
> 
> Loongson 3a devices would be even more interesting (4 cores).
> 
> Other mips devices would be:
> https://www.roc-noc.com/product.php?productid=209
> It would need USB for storage if 16MB flash isn't enough though.
> Not meant to be a PC after all.

Another MIPS one:
http://www.tekmote.nl/epages/61504599.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61504599/Products/CFL-006

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