Just to clarify something (I noticed this popping up on a lot of sites)... the Geodes aren't EOL-d, AMD simply has declared that they're not doing further architecture development on them. All that means is that they've decided it's not worth investing the money in trying to make them any better than they currently are; it does NOT mean that they are planning to stop manufacturing them.
I'm still waiting to find an ARM-based system that is available as an OEM board and offers the same sort of expansion/networking options as any of the stuff mentioned previously in this thread. A beagle board sounds awesome, for example, but it's targeted as a media/thin client type of device... until I can find a lead on an ARM/OMAP board designed with ethernet ports or at least miniPCI/WIFI expansion options things like ALIX are still the road of choice.

Yes, I might have been unclear, so, the point you will not have a 'next' ALIX with a next generation (incremental) Geode, they will have to switch to Atoms or something similar, just as Gumstix switched from Intel/Marvel PXAs to TI OMAP3s.

Sounds like gumstix to me ?

That's what I've kind of been hoping for, but since the switch to Overo (OMAP 3) a lot of the options they had for the old stuff has been chopped/I assume is in the process of being rebuilt/redesigned. I'm still a little curious as to what modules they'll end up making available for the Overo CPU board (the one expansion they have now is a good start, but still lacking a lot... namely, network connectivity which at the moment seems to only be possible through USB attached devices). Costs are also higher there, though that kind of makes sense given the relatively new development cycle...

Yes, as per http://www.gumstix.net/Hardware/view...Overo/112.html 100/10 Ethernet is actually the next expected module. Wifi/BT enabled motherboards are also on the way, so I guess in a few months it will be a very capable ARM platform in a very-very small package - just as gumstix should be As it's fairly new, there is a price premium, of course, leaving Geode based SBC-s somewhere between it and the NSLU2 (both price and performance-wise).

Just to inform NSLU2 people that there is a new kid in town:

Sheevaplug (pogoplug having probably near-identical hardware), comparison by none other than Martin Michlmayr:

* Marvell Kirkwood 6281 CPU at 1.2 GHz with 256 KB L2 cache (compared to a 266 MHz CPU)
* 512 MB RAM (compared to lousy 32 MB)
* 512 MB flash, enough for a basic Debian installation (compared to 8 MB)
* Gigabit Ethernet (compared to 100 Mb) and no proprietary microcode required
* 1x USB and 1x SD (compared to 2x USB: the only advantage the NSLU2 has)
* ... and finally: mini-USB with serial console and JTAG: while Debian on the NSLU2 works well and is stable, we regularly had users whose system would no longer boot and there was no good way to figure out why. The serial console on the SheevaPlug actually allows users to figure out what's going on.

All this for a measly 100$. If it really lives up to the expectations, this might very well a worthy replacement for the venerable NSLU2 (admittedly quite long in the tooth by now).

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http://www.cyrius.com/journal/debian...ood/sheevaplug