Hi Folks:

Efika MX Developer Edition v2.0 On Sale

R&B :)

Great! Does it run AURA firmware?

A basic version will ship initially. The full version will be provided when the Efika MX Open Client systems resume shipping in October due to order backlog. The firmware, software and software support will remain in beta until then.

R&B :)

If this is basically an Efika MX Open Client, what's with the "Developer Edition" label? The "alpha" state of the product?

It's the Efika MX Open Client without a case. It's the developer edition because it comes with a debug board.. the alpha state is because it's a pre-production board for verification (although it has been fully tested) and may have a few wires here and there to fix board bugs before the full production model was signed off on.

The software is decidedly "alpha" - you'll get Ubuntu Karmic (a pre-release, alpha 6 as of today) plus our own roll of the 2.6.31 kernel to go with it (binaries, packages and source). And that's it. It will not ship with accelerated multimedia codecs, 2D/3D acceleration at first instance.

Any problems you have are yours although we will be shipping updates, patches and new software (codecs, 2D/3D, etc.) at regular intervals, you should all start following the blog at http://blog.efikamx.info/ for updates :)