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 Sep 21 2006, 05:04 AM
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intresting things have been happening latley with freescale, in 30 days (i i remeber correctly) they get sold to new owners, what this means i dont really know as i havent looked at the proposed plans if any are even avalible
anyway there was a new product on the market that was simmilar to what i had in mind in terms of casing, its a pxa270 chip (xscale) but it has wifi, bluetooth, keyboard and more. some notable features (read must have) are: ethernet 128MB of ram 8 hour batter life 20GB drive USB host (most likly full speed) remeber i am mainly designing this as a portable office and have recently been eyeing the flybook and lifebook after seeing them in person however this device seems to fill 90% of what i was planning to chuck in there, the only things missing seem to be video out and a video card anyway links: http://www.slashgear.com/more-details-on-t...reen-201720.php http://www.seamlessinternet.com/s-xgen/specs.html http://www.slashgear.com/s-xgen-umpc-field...oard-141644.php |
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Dec 6 2006, 06:41 PM
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- I think software will be a real issue for this platform. It's one thing to hack up a bootable command line, it's another entirely to write suites of apps from PIM to wardriving, not to mention just getting X to run stably.
- I've been tossing about the idea of giving the OS a go myself, but therre are numerous impediments: 1. I just bought a house, and have a monstrous list of things to do for it. I probably have over 500 man-hours to do. The joys of home ownership. 2. At least through the end of Feb I'm already overcommitted. 3. While I've done software for 20 years and done some fairly complex low-level coding in both C and C++, I've never ported an operating system. 4. The box I'd use for this effort isn't even plugged in yet ... see 1 above. - For these reasons and others I'm sure I've missed, I haven't mentioned coding. Oops! |
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Da_Blitz Alternatives Sep 21 2006, 05:04 AM
adf very close indeed.
If the PP is like this with vg... Sep 21 2006, 12:22 PM Da_Blitz the port is what i am talking about, there are som... Sep 21 2006, 10:49 PM
uMP2k QUOTE(Da_Blitz @ Sep 22 2006, 04:49 PM)the po... Sep 21 2006, 10:56 PM Da_Blitz thoght that this is the best place to post this
a... Sep 24 2006, 09:28 PM Ferret-Simpson Trolltech, Freescales new owners, Fedora (If we ma... Oct 2 2006, 01:43 AM Da_Blitz acutally a number of them do provide patches for l... Oct 2 2006, 04:35 AM Ferret-Simpson What the heck are you taking?
You asked for compa... Oct 9 2006, 10:34 AM Da_Blitz sorry missed your point
at the moment i have in a... Oct 9 2006, 04:31 PM speculatrix here's another ready-made PXA270 module from A... Nov 1 2006, 05:01 AM Da_Blitz this one keeps on cropping up. very nice but i wou... Nov 1 2006, 06:55 PM speculatrix I think the key with the anders one is that it... Nov 2 2006, 03:23 AM Da_Blitz after looking at my current usggestion it seems ma... Nov 2 2006, 03:31 AM speculatrix of course, you could build early units from these ... Nov 2 2006, 04:02 AM Da_Blitz actually that would be no diffrent from just using... Nov 2 2006, 05:28 AM stampsm QUOTE(Ragnorok @ Dec 6 2006, 06:41 PM)- I thi... Dec 6 2006, 11:37 PM Da_Blitz ive been lookinng at it and i was going to use ubo... Dec 7 2006, 01:49 AM Ragnorok QUOTE(Da_Blitz @ Dec 7 2006, 09:49 AM)ive bee... May 19 2007, 08:24 AM Ragnorok - House ... interference ... bktzzkt ... Norwegian... Jan 26 2007, 08:02 PM Da_Blitz its funny i was looking into "bios" and ... Jan 27 2007, 06:13 AM speculatrix Ok, I know we all read linuxdevices regularly, and... Mar 22 2007, 10:20 AM Da_Blitz i was waiting for someone to mention that
i thoug... Mar 22 2007, 06:03 PM stampsm here is the manufacture's web page for the boa... Mar 22 2007, 06:39 PM adf that in something the size of the koshinja (sp) wi... Mar 22 2007, 06:57 PM speculatrix my Deutsche is nich sehr gut but there's enoug... Mar 23 2007, 01:50 AM Ragnorok - I like it, speculatrix! A little less memor... Apr 5 2007, 02:00 PM morrijr Another alternative...?
http://www.linuxdevices.c... Apr 20 2007, 05:22 AM speculatrix QUOTE(morrijr @ Apr 20 2007, 02:22 PM)Another... Apr 20 2007, 05:59 AM Da_Blitz actually its alot easier if you drop the confusing... May 20 2007, 09:14 AM Ragnorok - Sorry for the term confusion. So this will put ... May 21 2007, 09:53 AM speculatrix yes, I know you (da blitz) look at linux devices r... Jul 20 2007, 01:48 PM koen QUOTE(speculatrix @ Jul 20 2007, 09:48 PM)yes... Aug 5 2007, 08:27 AM koen Some pictures of the glomation board: http://domin... Aug 5 2007, 08:30 AM speculatrix QUOTE(koen @ Aug 5 2007, 05:27 PM)glomation i... Aug 5 2007, 02:37 PM louigi600 14x20 cm is kind of big for a handheld .... and al... Aug 5 2007, 08:21 AM louigi600 The one I liked best so far was the Adelaide thing... Aug 5 2007, 09:14 AM speculatrix QUOTE(louigi600 @ Aug 5 2007, 06:14 PM)The on... Aug 6 2007, 01:59 AM Da_Blitz definattly food for thought
i did manage to finis... Aug 5 2007, 12:46 PM Da_Blitz very nice, just found this little device
http://w... Aug 7 2007, 02:08 AM louigi600 It's 1/2 the size of my laptop ... and weights... Aug 7 2007, 05:14 AM Da_Blitz so i would be assuming you have one then?
its an ... Aug 7 2007, 07:31 PM louigi600 No I only have some Z's and some standad x86 h... Aug 8 2007, 02:20 AM koen The adelaide looks like a nice board, but it will ... Aug 8 2007, 04:13 AM louigi600 Ooooops ... there we go again with the price.
Whit... Aug 8 2007, 08:27 AM koen QUOTE(louigi600 @ Aug 8 2007, 04:27 PM)Ooooop... Aug 8 2007, 09:21 AM louigi600 I changed my mind ... I don't like Adelaide an... Aug 8 2007, 10:18 AM speculatrix some more interesting linux embedded stuff:
http:/... Aug 21 2007, 04:59 AM Da_Blitz i have seen alot of nice atmel arm refrence platfo... Aug 24 2007, 01:07 AM Tom61 Another homebrew machine, this time a gaming handh... Sep 23 2007, 01:18 PM speculatrix hmm, I remember seeing the buglabs stuff a while a... Sep 23 2007, 01:36 PM Da_Blitz i do have some stuff but its rough, and not yet an... Sep 23 2007, 11:33 PM |
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