On the other hand, I haven't been able to get any kind of video to work, nor even any of several video players I installed to open. I have a Belkin Wifi dongle (model F6D4050 v1) which also worked fine the first time. I then tried Wary 5.1.2 and the GUI worked fine 'out of the box', but using Xvesa. Puppy 5.2 booted from a USB flash drive, but xorg did not work so I had no GUI to work with. The Xcore86+ is faster than the AMD LX800, yet it uses less power, is less expensive and requires fewer components to build a device.'Īnyway, I bought the new Edubook, with the intention of using Puppy as the OS. The new CPU uses 32bit RAM instead of 16bit RAM that allows the CPU to do more work per clock cycle. 'The new Xcore86+ is 70% faster than the previous Xcore86 Device on Chip yet consumes the same power as the original Xcore86. Here is a bit of the announcement dated by Michael Barnes of Norhtec: It uses an Xcore86+ 1GHz processor and there is an option to install 1 GB of RAM, too, which I have. There is a new version of the Gecko Edubook out, with a new processor.
