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  Alternative go Raspberry Pi Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-06-28 10:45 +0100
    Gooseberry Board Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-07-09 13:53 +0700

#5637 — Alternative go Raspberry Pi

Gooseberry Board

http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/


Taken from the FAQ: 
http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/?page_id=108

What is the Gooseberry Board?

The Gooseberry Board is a small sized  tablet PCBA computer which can be 
connected to a TV and/or an LVDS display. Based on a newer arm architecture, 
the board can run a multitude of different programs and Os’s ,most notably 
Android ICS and Ubuntu. These are currently the only two Os’s compatible 
with the board but many more can be expected to be supported soon such as 
Arch Linux. In terms of performance, the boards cpu, an allwinner a10 1.0Ghz 
Soc, is roughly 3x more powerful than the SOC shipped with the Pi. A Mali 
400 gpu is also shipped with the board which is expected to have open source 
driver support in the near future.


How much will it cost?

The Gooseberry board is aimed to be sold at £40 with a charger. Please note, 
if you live outside of the EU, additional import taxes may apply.


Has anyone tested this toy?  If you did, how was your experience?


Rui Maciel

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#5643 — Gooseberry Board

>>>>> Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> writes:

	[Cross-posting to news:comp.os.linux.hardware.]

 > Gooseberry Board http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/

[...]

 > Has anyone tested this toy?  If you did, how was your experience?

	My primary concern with both Raspberry Pi and Gooseberry is
	their reliance on HDMI, which is known for its DRM-friendly
	features, though Raspberry Pi also supports composite video,
	while Gooseberry is claimed to support LVDS.

	Raspberry Pi go as far as to label VGA as "end of life
	technology" [1] (though I understand that the D-sub connector is
	probably way too bulky to be used on such a small board), while
	it's still widely used, and is pretty much the only widespread
	"open" serial video standard.  (FWIW, many 17" displays are
	still VGA-only.)

	Another issue is that both boards' GPU's are not yet well
	supported by free software, though Gooseberry is seemingly
	closer to have proper free software support:

--cut: http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/?page_id=108 --
    [...] A Mali 400 GPU is also shipped with the board which is
    expected to have open source driver support in the near future (see
    http://limadriver.org/).
--cut: http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/?page_id=108 --

[1] http://raspberrypi.org/faqs

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