The Pegasos ODW will soon be available pre-configured with Gentoo. Its price will also drop to $999 USD, of which $100 USD will be a donation to the Gentoo Foundation!



Read all about it in the latest issue of the Gentoo weekly newsletter:

http://www.gentoo.org


[ Edited by takemehomegrandma on 2005/1/25 23:41 ]

Wondering if there will be a price drop on the Peg2 board or just on the ODW?

Will a Gentoo install CD be made available for current PegII owners?

You can download one yourself, it's free. The Gentoo handbook also has good installation instructions for the Pegasos, I believe dholm is largely to thank for that.

@DSLCC - just the ODW for now, but there will be more options as you can see from the growing list HERE.

More news soon...

R&B

@Bill/discreetfx - antime is right. There will be a bootable 2005.0 Gentoo CD and it will be ready soon. They will actually have a Game CD too!

R&B

Hey- what's the current state about that mentioned 7447A cpu card on the freescale page?

/me complaining since a long time for a 7447A passively cooled cpu card.

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Cool.

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Gentoo has officially supported the Pegasos since 2004.1, and unofficially since 1.4 (by fetching a modified kernel from my dev page).
You can get the latest iso from one of these mirrors. And the installation handbook is located here.

Take a look at this Products:
Pegasos2 G4 Thin Client 599$: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=PPCG40005
and 7447A Cpu-Card 149$: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=PPCG40005

I ordered a G4 card for my Pegasos II the last week, because mine is broken...
I received it yesterday, less one week. Nothing more to say. It cost 88 euros with ports, it's fast and my Pegasos works fine now.

Hope you'll have the same chance.

Hum... looks like some prices have increased:

7447A CPU Card - $249

Leo.

I dont care for the price ... what I want to know
is the date of availability

The Freescale site has the PPCG40005 (Pegasos 7447ACPU Card)
listed as available now!


nels

[ Edited by nels664868 on 2005/2/4 9:47 ]

Ok, price went up by $100.00...that sucks. And they still don't list the CPU Speed!

Does anyone know what it is?

The 7447 1GHz @ $249 is the only product listed on pegasosppc.com:

https://www.pegasosppc.com/store.php?category=4

I assume this is where 'Buy Direct' takes the information from but I'm not registering on the Freescale site just to find out.

I'd hoped that the $149 price represented Freescale buying power/CPU discounts but now it seems it may have been either a typo or maybe only if you buy qty 1,000


[ Edited by JKD on 2005/2/4 9:32 ]

Both the 7447 and 7447A cards seems to be listed at a higher price now than some week ago (+$100 USD). The price for the 1GHz 7447 is still lower than it used to be though.

But it would indeed be interesting to see what differences there are between the 7447 and 7447A cards that warrants the +$50 USD bump in the price tag; be it clock frequency, heat or cooling solution or whatever. The vague product description and unknown specifications definitely prevent at least me from clicking on the "order" button at the Freescale site!