>I bet the P5020DS's main target audience is not developers of boards aimed at desktop computing

Yes, many will be tying this to other systems via network, serial and USB connections. The majority of system my own company sold in the 80's and 90's were terminal based.
The P5 family is aimed at communications applications.
But as they're porting Linux to the board, I've just gotten used to a GUI.
I really don't know if I'd be up to dealing with CLI as my sole interface again.
Even though our older systems used Microware OS9 for the 68K (which I just received an e-mail on a current update) and this is somewhat Unix like, learning to use a Linux system via CLI does NOT interest me.
If I can find a way to obtain one of these boards I'm immediately working on enabling an X4 PCIe connection.

[ Edited by Jim on 2011/3/12 2:06 ]