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just stumbled over this:
pcDuino8 (Beta) is a high performance, cost effective single board computer.
It runs operation systems such as Ubuntu Linux and Android.
pcDuino8 is powered by an octa-core Allwinner A80 application processor.
http://www.pcduino.com/pcduino8-beta-available-application/
and another example how embracing ARDUINO can help entry to a HUGE market.
pcDuino8 (Beta) is a high performance, cost effective single board computer.
It runs operation systems such as Ubuntu Linux and Android.
pcDuino8 is powered by an octa-core Allwinner A80 application processor.
http://www.pcduino.com/pcduino8-beta-available-application/
and another example how embracing ARDUINO can help entry to a HUGE market.
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What is this "Linux-brick" of which you speak?
I can imagine that Intel can run Linux as well as the ARM or MIPS or Power PC SoC machines I have used. If they can do it as cheaply, in such a small space and for such low power consumption remains to be seen. I look forward to checking them out.
But yes, certainly not an Arduino.
'Linux-brick'; here is simply shorthand for "small PCB module with chips able to run xyz Linux"
Ok, I think that's funny and excellent at the same time. Well played.
Having been reading all kinds of things in the computing world for decades. And having been in involved with developing with and for many "small PCB module with chips able to run xyz Linux" for nearly a decade I have never heard them referred to as "linux-brick".
To make things more confusing "brick" is commonly used as a term for what you have when an embedded device like those "small PCB modules..." suffers some error during the updating of it's firmware causing the update to fail and the bootloader to be rendered inoperable such that it can no longer be reprogrammed. Essentially becoming a useless "brick". As in "I bricked my Android phone with a bad update", "How do unbrick my D-LINK router after screwing up the OpenWRT installation?"
"brick" is not generally a good thing. "linux-brick" sounds like a derogatory term for a Linux running module.
Google knows nothing much about "Linux brick" although I found this: http://gizmodo.com/5440702/marvell-plug-computer-30-the-tiny-linux-brick which in context makes sense as it is kind of brick shaped, not just a board, and can probably be "bricked":)
Anyway, never mind, as you were.
Edit: Strangely whilst looking for common usage of "linux brick" the second thing I find is a forum thread discussing exactly this confusion from 2009 : http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=529828 People there assumed it was a derogatory term as well...
When I hear "linux-brick", I hear it like "runs linux in much the same way that bricks don't".
Or perhaps the way a brick *would*
http://hackaday.com/2012/03/28/building-the-worst-linux-pc-ever/
Wikipedia knows of course http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)
" ...describes an electronic device such as a smart phone, game console, router, or tablet computer that, due to a serious misconfiguration, corrupted firmware, or a hardware problem, can no longer function."
Ergo a "linux-brick" is something that is should be able to run Linux but is non-functional. Hence my confusion at the use of the term above where is seemed like a derogatory term.