Thursday, September 20, 2012

Raspberry Pi - Turbo mode.

What does this mean? Comparing the new image with 1GHz turbo enabled, against the previous image at 700MHz, nbench reports 52% faster on integer, 64% faster on floating point and 55% faster on memory.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008

Friday, September 7, 2012

Cubieboard: Another Linux computer on a board.

The features of the cubieboard:

1G ARM cortex-A8 processor, NEON, VFPv3, 512KB L2 cache
Mali400, OpenGL ES GPU
1GB DDR3 @480MHz
HDMI 1080p Output
100M Ethernet
4GB Nand Flash
2 USB Host, 1 MMC slot, 1 SATA, 1 ir
96 extend pin including i2c, spi, lcd, sensors, ..
Running Android, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions

http://cubieboard.org/

Cuttlefish

"With Cuttlefish your Ubuntu will adapt its appearance and settings according to the environment"