Invasion of the low power devices
Thanks to TI and the drawing they did at LinuxTag 2008 I got a BeagleBoard Rev. B4. When the package arrived I started getting the necessary serial cable.
This board is unbelievable small. You get in a small box together with a mini USB cable:
And now on to my favorite: The OMAP3 on the board runs at 500 MHz. As you see it is not dangerous to put a finger on the running CPU :-)
Some other CPU manufacturers should better work on being as efficient as this one instead of wasting money with delusive marketing campaigns.
Despite
there are not many Beagleboards in the wild the community around it is
quite active. Without doubt Koen Kooi is ahead of everyone else: He is
fixing kernel, gcc and mplayer problems altogether. Thanks to this work,
people will have it a lot easier when the board can finally be bought
in shops.
Jalimo on
the Beagleboard is currently blocked by libtool 2.2 and/or GNU
Classpath issues. I have a workaround but am waiting for answers from
the libtool developers about a real solution.
