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David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> wrote:

>On 07/03/2012 23:00, 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/
>>
>> Cheers Don...
>>
>
>
>It's a nice idea and initiative, but I don't see it going anywhere. 
>These boards need community support - there are lots of groups who have 
>ported different Linux distributions and software for the Pi.  Part of 

The (community) support is already there. Freescale has all the
software (Linux and Win CE BSPs) and documentation on their website
and offers several fora to users.

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