I was pretty excited about the Galileo[1] board when it was announced (and a bit disappointed they laid me off before I could buy some at a discount). Might sti

I was pretty excited about the Galileo[1] board when it was announced (and a bit disappointed they laid me off before I could buy some at a discount). Might still buy one retail, since it's a good match for a project I have. It is not trying to be an x86 Raspberry Pi, as it has no video and more I/O, though I consider it a mistake to hang most of the GPIO pins off SPI. I also think they ought to have ensured before release that a wider range of OSes ran on it — various RTOSes, free and otherwise, and FreeDOS, to make it a drop-in replacement for the ol' PC-with-parallel-port. [1] http://arduino.cc/en/ArduinoCertified/IntelGalileo http://arduino.cc/en/ArduinoCertified/IntelGalileo