Efika 5200B Project End-user Evaluation of EFIKA, desktop testing, articles etc. in category Other proposed by Kristian Eklund on 5th February 2006 (accepted on 11th February 2006)

Project Blog Entries

	PUSH - Alternative Computer Event posted by Kristian Eklund on 23rd June 2007 Last weekend, June 15-17th, me and my friends behind Pegasos.org arranged a computer party for everyone using other operating systems than Windows. It was a successful meeting with people from not only Sweden, but also Norway and Denmark. We had a great time. Genesi was kind enough to send us an Open Client Plus to show off. People were impressed with GNU/Linux on XFCE4. MorphOS developers Bigfoot and CISC were both there with their EFIKAs. They showed us MorphOS 2.0 running smoothly on these tiny platforms. There was a big difference in speed between MorphOS and GNU/Linux+XFCE4. The GNU/Linux machine had big troubles with playing movies, but the MorphOS machines played them alot smoother. Pictures are available here. [Permalink]

	Tiny Mupper for EFIKA posted by Kristian Eklund on 10th April 2007 Mikael Karlsson, the developer of Mupper, sent me a little kernel for the EFIKA a while ago. I triedit, but it didn't work. It was the second beta. The first beta worked, and I wanted him to include more features for the next update. I know Mikael has alot to do with his new-found work, but I'm sure he will release a final Mupper when we least expect it. :) Stay tuned and be sure to check out Pegasos.org for the latest EFIKA news. [Permalink]

	Super-Low Power Consumption posted by Kristian Eklund on 18th January 2007 My girlfriend gave me a 120 W PicoPSU for Cristmas. Why the 120W version? Well, it was the only one available for express shipping to Sweden, a few weeks before Christmas. :P Anyway, I use it with a 12V, 3A power supply I had lying around and these 36 Watts (V * A = W) powers my EFIKA with 80 GB 2.5" HDD, ATi Radeon 9200 SE graphics card and an USB-stick for booting. No problems at all. I even think I have plenty of Watts to go before overloading the 36W PSU. Incredible! [Permalink]

	My EFIKA Has Arrived posted by Kristian Eklund on 10th December 2006 Right now I am doing a world update on newly installed Gentoo on my EFIKA. Since compilation is pretty slow on it I distribute it via DISTCC to my two Pegasos2 machines. It works perfectly and the compilations are just flying! :P This line in make.conf will optimize your code for the 603-core in the MPC5200 CPU: CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=603 -mtune=603 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" A few days ago I wrote my first article about my first impressions of the EFIKA. That review was done using the Debian Installer from EFIKA.info. Stay tuned for more EFIKA articles. EFIKA Mounting: I have found a way to mount our beloved EFIKAs in any case: You can purchase them here. The manufacturer is Richco Inc. [Permalink]

	On-board Graphics posted by Kristian Eklund on 14th November 2006 The final specifications of the developer board has been released. It is the original data with no on-board graphics, but a PCI-AGP riser instead. This will work out just fine for my project. I have a Radeon 9200SE here waiting for the EFIKA. I'm sure this will be a very good and read review. Visit one of the largest Pegasos sites today! There is also an EFIKA Developer Conference coming up in Austin, Texas in late February. There are discussions about holding an equal conference in Europe. If they can do it in Europe Pegasos.org will do our very best to be there. [Permalink]

	Different EFIKA versions posted by Kristian Eklund on 14th April 2006 Yesterday Bill and Raquel told us there will be different versions of the EFIKA. With and without PCI, FPGA and onboard graphics. For my end-user testing I would prefer the graphics-version with Linux-drivers. Looking forward to the EFIKA. [Permalink]