The ODROID-C1 looks very nice. My main hesitations would be available drivers and community size. They may have drivers for everything, I don't know. It is

The ODROID-C1 looks very nice. My main hesitations would be available drivers and community size. They may have drivers for everything, I don't know. It is nice to see that a somewhat recent kernel is available though (3.10). I recently ported several projects I had from beaglebone black to an Olinuxino A10 Lime. A lot of stuff was relatively painless, but I was never able to get Node.js to install. I also got bit in the ass because I laid out and ordered PCBs assuming all of the SPI channels had drivers, when only one was there (of course, not the one I chose). Embedded Linux constantly reminds you that you are standing on the shoulders of giants, and you can go from feeling like a wizard to feeling like an idiot real quick when some part of the system isn't working. That's where having the communities like beaglebone's and raspberry pi's really pay off.