Re: Plat'Home OpenBlocks discounted for Debian member and FLOSS Developer
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.
It also seems rather expensive compared to the other arm systems I have
of similar features and performance. My prediction will be that with
that price and the required information to order one, you won't get
much interest. That's a shame.
It does look pretty though.
--
Len Sorensen
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