http://www.osnews.com/story/16471/AMD_Pulls_Plug_on_Personal_Internet_Communicator Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 22:34:00 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?181555 http://www.osnews.com/thread?181555 That is OK. I am going with this:

http://www.pegasosppc.com/efika.php

This is a low power no noise linux machine for file sharing. With a USB2.0 card in the PCI slot I am ready. Or with the same graphics card as the ODW:

http://ati.amd.com/products/certified/genesi.html

It will be my fun for the next few weeks.

Rasmus Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rasmus) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?181565 http://www.osnews.com/thread?181565 http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/10/100-toolkit.html

A better approach to emering markets. Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rasmus) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?181723 http://www.osnews.com/thread?181723 The picture shows an optical SP/DIF output, if I'm not mistaken. Any idea which chipset drives the audio? If it's capable of outputing 44.1kHz without resampling, that could be the perfect basis for that mpd-based music jukebox I've been having wet dreams about... Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jebb) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?181727 http://www.osnews.com/thread?181727 All that said, the big difference in the approach is that the EFIKA can be assembled into many things and that assembly and fine tuning to the local market is an opportunity the local economy can absorb. The EFIKA will have OS options and can be many different things. Example:

http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/projects.php?program=EFIKA

Thanks for the introduction and the opportunity to post that.

R&B Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bbrv) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?181745 http://www.osnews.com/thread?181745 Jebb,

A little more technical detail on it (the page is meant to reduce the number of support calls for "which page of the docs is..?")

http://www.powerdeveloper.org/efika.php

It's basically an enhanced AC97 controller in the SoC, with a Sigmatel STAC 9766 (same as on the Pegasos!) - it has an 18-bit internal mixer, and can play up to 16-bit 48KHz stereo audio through each output (it has plenty, check out the gallery).

By default the S/PDIF outputs the same audio that is on the main line-out channel (at least under ALSA this works), but you can tell it to do LPCM/AC3 passthrough if you push the right data at it. Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (matt@genesi-usa.com) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?182111 http://www.osnews.com/thread?182111 Displaced by ~100 USD AMD Geode based laptop. Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (encia) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?182114 http://www.osnews.com/thread?182114 @R&B

"does not provide enough consideration to the flexibility and scope of application based on local input"

OLPC is a "laptop" i.e. refer any laptop PCs based on Intel Centrino and AMD Turion. Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (encia) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?182116 http://www.osnews.com/thread?182116 One could fleet assemble an AMD K8 Sempron based PC under 250 USD. AMD PIC is not competitive enough against AMD's own Sempron based PC.

Refer to
http://www.pricewatch.com/computer_systems_no_os/athlon_64_3000_512...
for Athlon 64 3000+ PC with AMD Radeon X300 for $237.97.

Rev-E Athlon 64 @1Ghz can passively cooled.Edited 2006-11-14 10:04 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (encia) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?182120 http://www.osnews.com/thread?182120 @encia

Right, that is the point. One size fits all? There is too much _embedded thinking_ in this approach (see http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/10/olpc.html ). The whole situation is more complicated and requires more engagement across the spectrum of people involved to insure the effort is successful. OLPC in its current form makes the ultimate objective (isn't it the democratization of ideas, increased communication and educational opportunity, etc.?) more difficult to achieve _for the people that will ultimately achieve it (suggesting here that it won't be OLPC as it is packaged and organized today that is successful) because OLPC distorts the requirements for success. Unfortunately, we have seen this before - http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2005/09/iwantmoreforless.html . Thanks, but no thanks. There is a social movement already working pretty well inspired by a Social Contract and managed through a license and governance model that seems to be doing the trick. Getting wired into that is the key on one end, enabling the flexibility at the point of deployment on the other end is equally important. Making it one size fits all not only restricts the output, but the input as well.

R&B Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bbrv) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?182481 http://www.osnews.com/thread?182481 @http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2005/09/iwantmoreforless.htm

OLPC is equiped with WiFi, USB 2.0, 3DNow SIMD. Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (encia) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?182500 http://www.osnews.com/thread?182500 http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=17... Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rasmus) Comments