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Yup, understood. Access to consumer hardware like this is not something that we provide at the moment, I'm afraid.


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That's hardly consumer hardware...

What does that mean, though? That you're not really able to support the variety of hardware you get in real life?

I glanced over the site, but didn't see the hardware requirements.

Ye I got a feeling that shared processor time with strangers is not viable without specialized hardware.

Is that a hardware limitation, or just the lack of willingness to provide software support? I can't really imagine the former.

That's hardly available to the average home user.

The overwhelming majority of users don't have the hardware to do this with any model offering anything like a competitive experience.

I have no idea what I'm talking about, but could this be to benefit from hardware support?

The subtitle is "do you want to get one to try?", but I can't figure out how I would do that. I might be missing a link or something, but you might want to make the funnel more obvious.

Yeah, I borked that one. Shoot me an email at the blog contact link if you want one. I plan on making a little wordpress page to migrate specs and sales info onto this weekend.

I also have no idea what the specs are; bandwidth, drive, interface, etc., so I am not really sure whether I'd be interested. I would suggest adding a brief summary of the device's capabilities to the top.

Believe it or not - when it comes to specs, neither do I at this point. I've mostly been focused on implementing the serial console and UI features. I've got a vision for the next rev that I hope to complete in the next month or two.


I didn't read the article, but I have been trying to stay vaguely informed off and on.

The two 'cons' that really need to be addressed:

* Average consumers need /access/ to purchase working solutions (which means some prosumers and some developers will).

* Working solutions probably need to include: DisplayLink, USB, Ethernet, and /maybe/ WiFi (the later two /could/ just be USB devices) ports on the hardware. Standard bulk IO (like SATA, PCI(e) bus) would be nice to have, but not required.


Yeah, even getting that beast installed on a typical machine may not be straightforward. It has very specific hardware requirements.

Sure, if someone wants to foot the bill I could bring myself to use one ;), it's just that when it's my money I'd rather have the same performance at a third the price and the same OS I'll be deploying to.

As mentioned though, I'm clearly not the target demographic.


I'm rather sure there are a mid sized number of "anyones" who would buy the hardware required to run it given the opportunity.

But I certainly agree that not everyone can, and very few individuals.

The thing is a monster of a model.


Sadly - there's basically no hardware support for this. Dead in the water.

It seems the hardware is willing, but some proprietary software part is weak: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/tmoipv6beta...

The hardware is nice though. Wish we could run open source assistants on it.

I get that, that’s why I said if you don’t have certain software limitations. If it’s to play games or something then I understand.

Buying a general-purpose computing device to run a handful of built-in applications is not really fully operating it.

It's very limited, definitely. Usually limited to a few devices that people specifically build for.
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