<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div>Hi David,</div><div><br></div><div>A lot of the minnowmax sharing is happening on G+. Perhaps people will start posting to youtube as well. I'm not sure what would motivate someone to do one over the other. Perhaps just the preferences of the people attracted to one board or the other.</div><div><br></div><div>As to a forum... I don't really understand what you mean. Is this not a forum? Or do you mean something other than a mailing list? Some of that is also happening on Google+ and the IRC channel.</div><div><br></div><div>The cases you mentioned are being discussed a bit on G+.</div><div><br></div><div>As for the fanboy sites and howtos, one possibility is that a lot of what those sites are dedicated to (getting common OSs to work on the board) isn't needed. As an x86 platform, most of the common operating systems and distros work out of the box, not special instruction necessary. Where there are caveats, they are mostly covered on the wiki: <a href="http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMaxDistros">http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMaxDistros</a></div><div><br></div><div>Finally, a lot of people are still awaiting their boards, so I expect to see an increase in chatter over the next few weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Just my thoughts on why this might be the case.</div><div><br></div><div><div>-- </div><div>Darren Hart<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Open Source Technology Center</div><div>darren.hart@intel.com<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Intel Corporation</div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> David Rolfe <<a href="mailto:David@montala.co.uk">David@montala.co.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> David Rolfe <<a href="mailto:David@montala.co.uk">David@montala.co.uk</a>>, MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion <<a href="mailto:elinux-minnowboard@lists.elinux.org">elinux-minnowboard@lists.elinux.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 9:43<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> <<a href="mailto:elinux-minnowboard@lists.elinux.org">elinux-minnowboard@lists.elinux.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [MinnowBoard] My Initial thoughts on the MinnowBoard Max<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'; COLOR: #000000"><div><font size="3" face="Calibri">Hi,</font></div><div><font size="3" face="Calibri"></font> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Bearing in mind the revolutionary ideas behind the MinnowBoard Max,
and the fact that these boards are now starting to arrive in the hands of ‘end
users’, I have to say that I am quite surprised at the lack of general
information available, and indeed the absence of even a general discussion forum
anywhere…. and I have not even found an unboxing video on You Tube yet… or seen
one for sale on eBay!</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">It is possible of course that I am completely missing the point
here, but I am placing this product in the same league as the Raspberry Pi, the
Beagle Board together with other recent updated SOC boards such as the Banana
Pi, Cubieboard etc.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">These are all so called development boards, which (as a basic
example) just require a power supply, a USB keyboard/mouse plus a monitor, and
of course a suitable operating system or Linux based ‘distro’ to turn them into
a simple personal computer… as I assume can the MinnowBoard Max, and thus have
also caught the attention of the home hobbyist, or small computer
enthusiast.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">That being the case I would have thought that a few ‘fanboy’ or
‘enthusiasts’ websites would have appeared by now, together with third party
offering of such items as cases, cables, power supplies, pre-programmed micro SD
cards etc. Not everyone will be interested in this sort of thing of course,
certainly not the more advanced developers, but there are a lot of no so
experienced prospective customers out there who certainly would be… me
included!</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Perhaps it is still early days or possibly the MinnowBoard Max is
not really suitable for use in this way, although I sincerely hope it
is!</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">Please don’t take this as a criticism of the
manufacturers in any way, but I genuinely cannot understand why there is not a
lot more coverage, in one way of another on the ‘web’ of this board, or even
some initial reviews! <span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">Personally,
although I tend to follow developments in this area fairly closely, it was only
a few days ago that I really became aware of the MinnowBoard Max for the first
time.</span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">I am sure that I am about to be enlightened though!</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Regards,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">David</font></p></div></div></div></div>
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