Wouter van Ooijen zei ...
> It is basically a big ARM chip (with video hardware), RAM, some

Well, actually, the ARM processor is a tiny part of the huge video chip.

> boot-flash, and a memory card. It runs Linux, but probably not on par
> (speedwise)  with your current desktop.

It isn't exactly a slouch, though.  Apparently with the fancy video chip
it is quite adept at playing video games.  Since the target is kids this
is an important feature.  At FUDcon they showed it playing Quake quite
acceptably.  You probably wouldn't take a handful of them and call it a
server farm, tho.

It is my understanding that it will ship with Fedora, so the normal gcc
toolchain will be readily available. Fedora expects to make ARM a primary
architecture by Fedora 18, so all >10,000 packages will be available
hassle-free.  The ARM effort is close now, so almost all the packages are
available.  They just didn't make it under the wire for Fedora 17, whose
Alpha shipped Tuesday.

--McD


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