Shenzhen Xunlong has released another Allwinner H3 board, namely Orange Pi PC Plus, similar to Orange Pi PC but adding WiFi, and 8GB eMMC flash. IO performance on storage eMMC jumps in when we compare with crappy SD cards! For 20 USD this is best iot developer device now.
Orange pi one playing video over X-mini using usb sound card! Sound Blaster Live USB card works perfect with arm linux kernel 3.4. Next we will try to use optical audio ! It is amazing what can be done with 10 usd mini arm computer!
We are working to make Ubuntu 16.04 fully functional image with CedarX(Allwinner's proprietary multimedia library for hardware accelerated video) integrated to VLC.
Google is getting ready to release Android for the Raspberry Pi, but small group of Pi enthusiasts aren't waiting for that to happen.They're almost ready to share Android 6.0.1 running on it!
The European Parliament is continuing to emphasise the importance of free and open source software. In resolutions adopted in March and April, on a thriving data-driven economy and on gender equality and empowering women in the digital age respectively, the Parliament stresses there is a role for free and open source software.
Two years later after their first 64-bit ARM Server SoCs with the 48-core ThunderX, ThunderX2 is introduced as world biger ARM chip with 54 64-bit ARM cores @ up to 3.0 GHz.New cavium chip is 2x to 3x faster than ThunderX 1 and is manifactuerd in 14nm FinFet process.
Second video: Orange Pi one SMplayer 1080p video Ubuntu Mate 16.04 Hardware decoder.
Here is video Orange pi one Ubuntu Mate 16.04 boot process.
Orange Pi one Ubuntu Mate 720p SMplayer hardware decoder.
Can it run crysis ? No but you can play quake 3 :) It is just 9.99$ computer!
