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Efika 5121E Project
Efika 5121e book

in category Industrial
proposed by Geoffrey on 30th March 2008

Project Proposal
Efika 5121e book project aim :
As for the Efika 8610 book project proposal (http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/project/efika8610/713),
the aim of the Efika 5121e book project would be to extend the current Efika book to the new Efika 5121e board.
So this would be either a complete new ebook or a book containing information about the different boards.
For Genesi or Freescale it can be a way to show all the board's features and potential to possible clients and third parties...
For the users, this book is a good way to start with an Efika board.



Note: the following lines is a copy/paste from http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/project/efika8610/713 project proposal explanations given about the current Efika 5200B book :

Information about the actual Efika (5200B) book
The Efika book is a free multi-language electronic book dedicated to the Efika 5200B motherboard from Genesi.
It contains information about the Efika hardware, it's setup and it's supported operating systems (Linux & others).

The philosophy of the ebook consists of :
- gathering all available information about the 5200B board usage (technical but also commercial)
- making a clearly-understandable document for the end-user
- being translated in several languages
- being free and downloadable

For example, the Efika book is currently available in several languages :
- English
- French
- Japanese
- Polish
- Italian
- Swedish
- Czech

All above translations are handled by a community of passionated users on efika.org. Other translations are scheduled :
- Russian (very early version already available)
- Dutch
- German
- Greek
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Turkish

The current Efika book V1.5 contains information about :
I) The Efika 5200B hardware :
- Efika 5200B motherboard history, specifications and product versions
- Genesi's products based on the Efika 5200B board
- Hardware compatibility and setup (supported graphic cards, PSU, storage, hardware setup...)

II) The Efika 5200B firmware and software :
- Genesi firmware usage
- Linux Operating system specificities of the board
- Installation instructions of various GNU/Linux distributions (Debian, Gentoo, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, EdUbuntu and Crux)
- Usage Ideas examples (Using a Nintendo Wiimote with an Efika, building up a media center combined with another computer like a Pegasos..)


My skills are :
- Software engineering (specialist in 3D real-time graphics development)
- Good Linux skills
- MorphOS and PowerPC usage

My previous projects for Genesi are :
- The Pegasos book :
Official URL : http://thepegasosbook.efika.org/
PowerDeveloper project URL : http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/project/pegasos/8

- The Efika book :
Official URL : http://book.efika.org/
PowerDeveloper project URL : http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/project/efika/29


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