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.