Saw it over the weekend... Might be in the order pile soon..

And yes, great for containers.

@Dashrender said:

Does it run a flavor of linux that allows it to run all linux apps, most importantly GUI based linux apps?

That's what a full OS is. That was the point that it's not a phone OS but a full desktop.

@DustinB3403 said:

The BeagleBoard-X15 is the first BeagleBoard.org SBC to fully support Android, which will be offered along with Debian and Ubuntu images. The SBC is said to support applications including, robotics, media centers, interactive art, machine vision, home security and industrial automation. BeagleBoard.org also notes that the PRU subsystem “provides the ability to create software-defined peripherals and extreme low-latency response to events such as sensing and responding to wind gusts around a quad-copter.”

No mention of firewall capabilities. But it includes Debian and Ubuntu, also while being able to run Android.

A few mentioned potential uses are for media centers. XBMC comes to mind.

Yeah, but you can run XBMC / Kodi on a friggin Roku stick... why pay $249 for that?

That looks like a pretty significant loss. They must have been pretty sure that this one was coming for quite some time. Now they have to be thinking about how they are going to handle the rest of it since they apparently have two chips that were not covered in this case!

Tests were done on the NVidia Shield TV platform which is an Android-based console device.

NVidia Shield

I believe so.

CubeRox Alarm Clock

I expect that they intend to.

@SonshineAcres said:

@coliver That's interesting. If I can pull off this first phase, taking it to a higher level should be a breeze. I'll keep you informed of my progress. Keep in mind, it's not the top priority on my list, but it sure has my interest currently.

Oh, I was just saying if you could get it working reliably and have it wifi/cellular connected there would be a market for it. This overall sounds like a fun project.

It is potentially viable today. Chromebooks and Chromeboxes are already using it. Mobile devices already use it. If you are okay with not running Windows or Mac desktops, you can run most Linux or BSD desktop configurations on it now. So end user computing is already pretty much there.

If you do any non-Windows server work, ARM is already very viable for SMB servers. Web and application servers, databases, LDAP, etc. all will work very well there.

I really need to buy one too. I was told that I had earned a free one from a vendor when I got my vExpert certification but that was a marketing scam. They never really sent one. None of that free stuff that people claimed to give to vExperts turned out to be real. Except for Pluralsight, that was awesome.

That's a pretty neat idea.

That would be a nice form factor for the Raspberry Pi.

Those look so cool. I am glad to see that they were able to get the first shipment out the door. Hopefully these really take off.