Re: OLinuXino, a serious Rasberry Pi competitor?

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From: keithr
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:21

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On 8/03/2012 9:00 AM, Don McKenzie wrote:
> OLinuXino, a serious Rasberry Pi competitor?
>
> After talks at the recent Embedded conference in Germany (2012), Olimex
> decided to go ahead with the production of two new boards that were very
> similar to the Rasberry Pi. The first one they should have prototypes in
> the coming weeks.
>
> The second will be 3 to 6 months before production boards will be seen,
> so I won't cover it in this report, however the CPU specs on this second
> board, are almost identical to the RPi microcontroller chip, and board.
>
> Olimex describes this board as a bridge to the linux development
> community and the Duinomite/Arduino/Maple/Pinguino world of developers.
>
> This will be completely Open Hardware / Open Source Project, all CAD
> files will be available so everyone can download modify, and use them.
> Same with the software.
>
> More Info:
> http://www.duinomite.com/olinuxino-a-serious-rasberry-pi-competitor/

I suppose that it is the most sincere form of flattery. Looks like 
Olimex disagrees with all those on the other thread that reckon that the 
Pi is a waste of time.

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