What a fantastic Customer Service ethos...

You'll be lucky...  The amount of grief required just to get a Dev Kit is HUGE... !!!

Ordered 10 days after you, no sign of anything yet.   Did they email you shipping confirmation?   I can't even get a email response from them...

Ordered mine 5th June, was told June 29, but this fell through, and now they are telling me July 13-17

Globalscale are a shambles (a quick search on these forums will reveal the extent of peoples problems with them), it's good to see alternative suppliers appearing, as bad companies don't deserve to survive in todays climate, and people will switch elsewhere as soon as there is an alternative.

The Ionics Sheevaplugs were also featured in this weeks Electronics Weekly magazine  in the UK.

Personally, I wished I waited and ordered from Ionics, as Globalscale seem to be pretty unreliable, as my Sheeveplug is overdue and Globalscale seem to be conveniently ignoring my emails asking what's going on...

Should be getting my SheevaPlug in the close future (today is when deliveries arrive from manufacturer Ihave been told).  Thinking of updating with this before I start tinkering.

Are there any updated alphas planned soon?  Should I wait until A7 arrives?  Does it contain the updated "Open U-boot" (is this the same as "DAS U-boot"?) which boots faster?    Lots of information to take in, lots of different information, Lots of informtion written by people that know what they are doing!!!!

Slightly put off updating because it's got a 2.6.30 RC kernel, rather than the final of 2.6.30.  Would rather wait if I knew there was one in the cooker and coming soon...

Thanks.

The wiki says the folowing:


So the question is, now that 2.6.30 is released, did the 2 patches mentioned above make it into the mainline kernel?  Can people use standard kernel sources from www.kernel.org without needing special patches?

Want to run a mediaserver (TwonkyMedia) and samba, and a couple of other bits and bobs (rtorrent for example).  I have a Western Digital Mybook Mirror.

Does the OS live in flash on a readonly filesystem?   Do I have to build the OS image and flash the device with it, or can I ssh to the default install, load applications, and they remain there through reboots.  I suppose the core question is, is the a read-only filesystem?

I skimmed the FAQ and did not see anything about these basics..

I'm sure it will all fall into place when the unit arrives, however in the meantime can someone direct me to some light reading...

Also have some questions.   What sort of Indians do I need? 

Linux ARM big endian glibc 2.2.5
Linux ARM big endian uclibc 0.9.28
Linux ARM little endian glibc 2.2.5
Linux ARM little endian uclibc 0.9.28