Cheap, Debian/NetBSD Compatible ARM Board

[William Park]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 04:53:50PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> Has anyone come across a cheap (less than $50) NetBSD/Debian compatible ARM
> board?
> I have been playing around with retro-fitted wyse clients for some time now
> and have become fascinated with the hackability of some of the ARM based
> devices on the market.
> 
> I saw this on dealextreme, and I think all it needs is a serial port
> soldered to the mainboard to work, as it comes with u-boot.
> http://www.dealextreme.com/p/standalone-bittorrent-bt-downloader-usb-printer-sharing-network-lan-server-57591
> 
> Then there are these buffalo nas devices that go for $50 on ebay
> http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Main_Page that are extremely hackable..
> 
> I am a bit peeved that it clearly does not cost much to manufacture these
> devices, and I don't understand why manufacturers insist on locking out the
> consumer forcing us to take soldering irons to these devices to re-purpose
> them.

Same here.  I just want to play with ARM motherboard, without having to
buy $399-$599 tablets.  But, I guess that's what they want, because
every time a new model comes out, you have to buy the whole thing again.
I guess, it's like "desktop" vs "laptop" argument.
-- 
William
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