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The Gumstix Overo - a miniature X Window System platformThe Gumstix Overo - a miniature X Window System platformPosted Nov 15, 2008 11:35 UTC (Sat) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048)In reply to: The Gumstix Overo - a miniature X Window System platform by dmag Parent article: The Gumstix Overo - a miniature X Window System platform
There's one thing that's not clear to me about the Overo: the wifi and bluetooth support.
The Overo (without expansion board) lacks lots of connections, but has some general purpose IO pins that could come handy in an embedded project. If it also had wireless included in the price that would make it really attractive.
One final issue is whether the Overo CPU is as powerful as the Beagleboard one...
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The Gumstix Overo - a miniature X Window System platform Posted Dec 3, 2008 4:00 UTC (Wed) by HalfMoon (guest, #3211) [Link] Overo includes Bluetooth and WLAN; they work just fine on mine, once I hook up their antennae. It's the same ARM cpu ... but the Beagle is a higher end version, which also includes the OpenGL engine, C64+ DSP, and video accelerator. I'd expect the 2.6.29 kernel will support most of the features of these boards out-of-the-box, possibly excepting the DVI (and for Beagle, S-Video) output for which I don't know that mainline will behave. Of course, there's still a boatload of OMAP support that's not yet in mainline. That may matter to you if you hook it up to something other than the standard buddyboard.
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