Yup, quite a few people have started buying them..
Brian Zhou has recieved one for development. There is a make file in the Optware SVN feeds for it, along with various other files and such.
They come with Ubuntu 9.04 at stock, and Martin Michlmayr is working on Debian for it (requires an image tarball atm i believe)
http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/Sam Reed
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nslu2-linux@..., CN <t4chacko@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a long term user of slugosBE; have two servers running Apache/php, with
> many user logins from the web (private, password protected access only).
> Have not made any upgrades or significant changes for a couple of year. Have
> not visited this forum for a while either
>
> Yesterday at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, I came across the very
> new Marvell SheevaPlug, available for $99:
>
>
http://www.plugcomputer.org/>
> It is quite faster than the slug, has 512M memory (!) and the network port is
> Gigabit (!). I wonder if anybody here has ported a slug type distribution to that
> one? Since the development plug has two usb ports, it should work as is for all
> applications of the current slug. The final product (non development kit) has
> only one usb port and is expected to be at about $40 or so. More importantly,
> it is open source from the get go and they are trying to sell this for
> development of various home embedded applications.
>
> At their small forum, I have noticed a user, bzhou with a product app. I assume
> it is the very helpful Brian of the same forum. If so, Brian, how easy would it be
> to bring a slugosbe type on that one, with similar modules?
>
> Cordially,
> CN
>
