Looks like certain berry-constant named device has opened Pandora's box, Olimex Ltd. just announced another low cost Linux SBC, but this time it is going to be OSHW and they are looking for developers that could help them round up the device for general use. Ok, enough talk, here's announcement - http://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/imx233-olinuxino-development-started-today/
PS read the article comments, this is not going to be the last OSHW SBC by Olimex 
I order most of my electronics bits from Farnell, so I've been searching for "OLinuXino" there every now and then (they keep a huge range of Olimex gear), but they still have no knowledge of any iMX233-OLinuXino board not even as an advance notice.
Any idea how long it'll be before this range appears on Farnell?
Pi deliveries were looking so sluggish that I expected to obtain an OLinuXino before a Pi, but Element 14 has accelerated massively in recent times and I have my Pi now. There's still plenty of room for other Linux boards though! 
With all the USB troubles that Pi is having, I'm especially interested in boards that have native Ethernet MAC on the SoC, as the BeagleBone does. USB's polled architecture really isn't ideal for off-SoC networking interfaces.
Morgaine.
Morgaine Dinova wrote:
There's still plenty of room for other Linux boards though!
With all the USB troubles that Pi is having, I'm especially interested in boards that have native Ethernet MAC on the SoC, as the BeagleBone does. USB's polled architecture really isn't ideal for off-SoC networking interfaces.
I just read about ODROID-X (apparently sponsored by Samsung) in this RasPi forum thread: Alternative if you want to spend a lot more. At US$129 plus shipping from South Korea, it's a lot more expensive than RasPi or OLinuXino, but has a Samsung Exynos4412 Cortex-A9 Quad Core 1.4Ghz with 1MB L2 cache, Mali 400 Quad Core GPU, 1 GB LP-DDR2 DRAM, and HDMI. Here's the ODROID-X web site: http://www.hardkernel.com. ODROID-X has 6 high-speed USB ports, but 10/100 Ethernet is done over USB like RasPi. With luck, the Exynos4412 has a smarter USB controller.
One thing that's interesting is that you can get compatible 1366 x 768 LCD (non-touch) screens so you can make yourself a fingerprint-free tablet: US$79 for 13.3" and US$69 for 10.1". Nice to have a sponsor who makes their own LCDs and DRAM :-)
OS is Android/Linux, but it's supposed to be open source so someone could port GNU/Linux. Documentation seems better than RasPi, but the SoC manual (currently for the Exynos4410) mostly documents peripherals, like RasPi's Broadcom BCM2835 document.
May the most open system win!
Nice, thanks! That's a very interesting addition to the ranks of ARM development boards.
Whether it's "expensive" or not depends on one's requirements of course. If the requirement is to have 4 networked cores then the ODROID-X board is cheaper than a cluster of 4 Raspberry Pi Model B, and far more powerful. Horses for courses, as usual. Grrr at Ethernet MAC not being on the SoC, but I like everything else about it.
In addition to Pandaboard as mentioned in BarryK's article, there's also the very similar Snowball in that product space, based on ST-Ericsson's equivalent high-end ARM applications processor, the Nova A9500. Some links:
I'm not sure that Snowball is going anywhere at that price though -- Farnell quote it at £181.93 -- but at least they're available ex-stock! 
The very similar Pandaboard will allegedly arrive in Farnell stock in early August, priced at a more reasonable £125.73 -- http://uk.farnell.com/circuitco/pandaboard-es/pandaboard-es-omap4460-arm-cortex/dp/2098930?Ntt=Pandaboard
The ODROID-X could wipe the floor with them both though, if it becomes widely available at US$129. I'm looking forward to it!
Morgaine.
Nice, thanks! That's a very interesting addition to the ranks of ARM development boards.
Whether it's "expensive" or not depends on one's requirements of course. If the requirement is to have 4 networked cores then the ODROID-X board is cheaper than a cluster of 4 Raspberry Pi Model B, and far more powerful. Horses for courses, as usual. Grrr at Ethernet MAC not being on the SoC, but I like everything else about it.
In addition to Pandaboard as mentioned in BarryK's article, there's also the very similar Snowball in that product space, based on ST-Ericsson's equivalent high-end ARM applications processor, the Nova A9500. Some links:
I'm not sure that Snowball is going anywhere at that price though -- Farnell quote it at £181.93 -- but at least they're available ex-stock!
The very similar Pandaboard will allegedly arrive in Farnell stock in early August, priced at a more reasonable £125.73 -- http://uk.farnell.com/circuitco/pandaboard-es/pandaboard-es-omap4460-arm-cortex/dp/2098930?Ntt=Pandaboard
The ODROID-X could wipe the floor with them both though, if it becomes widely available at US$129. I'm looking forward to it!
Morgaine.
