Linux-compatible single board computer

[josh at offthehill.org (Josh ChaitinPollak)]

On Jul 6, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Gordon Marx wrote:
>
>> From http://www.soekris.com/products.htm:
>>
> "We offer hardware products, but will make efforts to support and
> provide drivers for the most used software. We will primarily target
> some of the different flavors of Unix, and will directly support the
> following:
>
>     * FreeBSD The most powerful x86 open source Unix
>     * OpenBSD The most secure open source Unix available
>     * NetBSD The most portable open source Unix available
>     * Linux The most popular open source Unix"
>
> It seems to me that they'll at least support you bringing up some form
> of Linux on the thing...whether it's your distro of choice or not is
> anyone's guess.

Contrast that to this, especially the second sentence:

"DISCLAIMER: Our products are hardware only, designed for OEM  
integration with application software. The documentation is not very  
comprehensive, or in some cases absent. We are not able to help you  
install software, so if you don't know what you're doing, or are  
unable to get help somewhere else, please do not place an order.  
Please note that we do not offer application software support, we  
will make any effort necessary to help solve any technical problems  
with our hardware, but please use only email for contacting us on  
support issues. Don't expect answers on questions already covered on  
the website or in the manual, or questions like "how do I install  
Linux ?"...."

(Found on the order page aka, 'how-to-buy' ).

-Josh