PINE A64, First $15 64-Bit Single Board Super Computer

[ahmedadelhosni]

Hello.

Did anyone check this great board on Kickstarter ? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-single-board-super-comput/description

It shall be more powerful than Raspberry Pi 2. It is clear from its name that it is 64 bit. It is 1.2 Ghz clock + 1 or 2 GB of Ram. There are many great other features like the powerful Video output.

What I like the most is that they stated directly that it is compataible with OpenHab controller.

What do you think ?

I backed them today and shipping is next march. Not bad at all for me.

[gloob]

I was also thinking about to backe it to build my new FHEM Controller. But currently I'm happy with my raspberry pi.

[pere canadell]

Hi, I think that board is bad air now, the board in hardware is well, but in software not, no linux suport now, this company is asking to community to provide a linux support, because they cannot do this work.
and only a sdk from allwinner with android is provided.

this board with linux won't work with accelerated gpu only headless and doesn't have any sata.
more info https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux-sunxi/Ze_UhiO00t8

there are boards with a soc allwinner A20 that have sata port and works well with mainline linux only headless mode and basic graphics.
or kernel 3.4 for graphics support.

and has a community effort with distribution like armbian.com check these site for headless debian, works well.

more info at linux-sunxi.org
or
http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort for check new features and new boards support.