Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 08:53:24AM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: >> Plat'Home is one of the Debconf 13 sponsor will sell at discount to >> Debian member and FLOSS Developer for the OpenBlocks of small ARM micro server. >> >> https://openblocks.plathome.com/form/obs_verification/input.html >> >> Two types of the machine will be sold. >> >> * OpenBlocks A6 / $250 >> ARM (kirkwood) 600 MHz CPU and 512 MB onboard memory. >> http://openblocks.plathome.com/products/a6/ >> >> * OpenBlocks AX3 / $450 >> Dualcore ARM (armadaXP) 1.33 GHz CPU and 1 GB onboard memory. >> http://openblocks.plathome.com/products/ax3/ >> >> >> If you are interested, please contact to the following URL. >> >> https://openblocks.plathome.com/form/obs_verification/input.html
> You have to provide proof that you are active in a given community? > That's silly. And company name is mandatory, which seems odd for what > is often a community of volunteers doing things at home in their spare > time. > When I bought my i.MX53 QSB, freescale just asked what I was planning > to use it for, but had no problem selling developer boards to random > interested people. It certainly did some help in getting debian armhf > going, and I believe the initial work on rapbian was also done on i.MX53 > QSB because they were easy to get, decent performance, and recommended > by other Debian community members working on arm Huh? Are you sure that i.mx53 has decent performance? The NIC performance is pretty bad especially in UDP based applications.
