Genesi powerpc-based hardware offer ...

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

Hi

Well, for those of you willing to work on debian-edu/skolelinux on powerpc
hardware, i forward here the genesi offer of hardware donation for specific
projects, which i think could benefit those (or if you have other kind of
projects, you may be interested too).

Genesi has a developer program, which includes hardware donation to
specifically selected projects going :

  http://projects.ppczone.org/projects.php

No laptop (yet, there is a sub-laptop planed around the efika design, which
may be of interest into the educational market, but no ETA yet), but a wider 
ariety of models are available or will be soon, so have a look.
Among them are :

  - the ODW, pegasos machine in a flex-atx case.

  - the Efika, which is a low power soc design, dissipating around 5W global
    for the whole system and with a 8x12 cm form factor.

  - the high density blades, which consist in a 2U half length blade center
    space for 16 dual G4 blades, allowing for 32 blades (and thus 64 G4 cpus)
    in a 2U full sized rack unit. Hardware donation will be a special 2 blade
    + efika for control unit system.

  - the OSW, which is a dual 970MP BTX design, with june target release date.

I feel that the Efika may be especially well suited for the educational
market, as it can serve as very compact and low-power thin-client system,
maybe in conjunction with one of the more powerful server, like the blades or
the dual-dual-core-G5 machines.

So, if someone feels like working on debian-edu on powerpc (and i heard about
some guys with a room full of imacs), these could be the chance to get it
going, so please register a project on the above site.

Also, if someone is interested in working on the free flash players, i will
personally support this project :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther