Pico ITX: Backtrack Please

[Bill Vodall WA7NWP]

>> The Pico-ITX looks great, but a notch below it and good enough for
>> many similar functions would be the beagle board:
>> http://beagleboard.org/
>>
>> Personally I'm a bit jazzed at finally finding an embedded system with
>> two serial ports..   From this months Dr Dobbs:
>>
>> http://netburner.com/products/development_kits/network_development.html
>
> Interesting alternatives, but will be oh so much more difficult to find
> drivers and support for off the shelf OS and applications.

I'm assuming the Beagle Board is standard Linux.  Net burner would
indeed require much messing around with.

>> Did they say the Pico_ITX will boot from a thumb drive?  That's a big
>> plus.   It means no Hard disk is needed...
>
> Assumption on my part. It uses Award BIOS, I'll do some digging.

Since it's "modern", I'd assume it does to.   That would be a big plus.

Bill