>Also, I suppose the machine will be built with Linux compatibility in mind. Yes, but one more thing: there are coders in the Pandora/Pyra/emu scene who have n

>Also, I suppose the machine will be built with Linux compatibility in mind. Yes, but one more thing: there are coders in the Pandora/Pyra/emu scene who have no problems whatsoever with blowing away Linux and shipping their games as a bootable SD card that runs in raw mode. This is already/has-already happened all over the small-/elite-/tight-/indie- gamer scene, please keep in mind. Among one of the reasons Pandora (which is 4th or 5th-generation 'scene'-hardware) has been and Pyra will be (!) a success, is because its being done by passionate technologies who have overcome many other battles besides being able to write raw assembly for hardware they designed, built, and produced themselves. ;) >Ubuntu seems to run on certain tablets, it seems; hopefully phones are also workable. The best thing to do is just trust the team, and run the official linux distro - to be based, indeed on Debian/Ubuntu (I think, could be wrong) - on the Pyra. The Pandora is running Angstrom, which has its roots way back to things like the Sharp Zaurus 5500 and so on, which means its sort of built for small, light, and efficient. It has its own package management/distro, etc. So as an OS, its supported the Pandora quite well; mine boot directly to the PND-Manager (PND is the 'app bundle' of Pandora) which shows me everything - whats installed, what can be updated, what it does, etc. My kids just use it like an iPad. Everything is free/open/cool/elite too, just browse the http://repo.openpandora.org/ http://repo.openpandora.org/ repo and you'll see for yourself; some gems in there. To be running in my pocket? Hell yeah. But anyway, Angstrom supports a very healthy app eco-system on the Pandora, it must be said. I think the team wants to move to standard Debian for the out-of-the-box on Pyra, although I could be wrong on that; its such a vibrant scene I sometimes go a little blind/daft trying to keep up with Evildragon, ptitSeb, notaz () and the team are up to .. ( - http://boards.openpandora.org/user/76-notaz/ http://boards.openpandora.org/user/76-notaz/)