Comment Quality of the Linux support ? (Score 2, Informative) 181
I have myself play a bit with such embedded devices "for developpers" from other compagnies than Sharp and was rather disapointed by a partial only support of linux kernel.
By example, the support of PCMCIA board was usually not working correctly (just crashing the whole box when you start with something plugged in) or not supporting much devices (like been limited to IDE-raw only devices).
I will be very interested on experience of people who buy this device, about the quality of the kernel modules support, more especially of connection modules (USB, PCMCIA, and so on). And not only booting the kernel and the module, but *really* doing something usefull with it (booting is good, stand stable a some minutes is better)...
If USB or PCMCIA are correctly supported, it will be cool to develop (me ?) a Linux burning engine that fits the embedded engine ! :)
By example, the support of PCMCIA board was usually not working correctly (just crashing the whole box when you start with something plugged in) or not supporting much devices (like been limited to IDE-raw only devices).
I will be very interested on experience of people who buy this device, about the quality of the kernel modules support, more especially of connection modules (USB, PCMCIA, and so on). And not only booting the kernel and the module, but *really* doing something usefull with it (booting is good, stand stable a some minutes is better)...
If USB or PCMCIA are correctly supported, it will be cool to develop (me ?) a Linux burning engine that fits the embedded engine !
