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There are some ... production kinks left to iron out, but I'm sure we'll see them shipping with some kind of predictability in, say, two months time.
Currently production is being re-targeted to Germany, with what seems to be awesome results, so far. I'm very impressed by the guys behind this project, if I'm sounding very much tongue-in-cheek that's just because I bought mine in March of 2009, and am still waiting for it to ship. :)
However, it looks like they haven't produced a single unit yet. It's vaporware. They hope to sell an initial batch for something closer to $70, which seems more realistic, but I still think they're overly optimistic.
On the other hand, Raspberry Pi is looking good. They've had considerable delays (I think initially they were intending to start selling the boards in November), but they're making good progress and seem to have plenty of traction. Their target price seems more easily reachable considering the lower specs compared to the allwinner A10.
I'll agree that 'considerable' might be a bit too much, but they're late according to the initial schedule.
This is the relevant page and it does not look good: http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/kernel_compile/
Considering all the cool hacks (streaming Pandora, looking at albums from a computer etc) the TV is going to be the giant screen hooked up to all sorts of content. Having a tiny, silent box running right behind my TV would be good.
I hadn't heard this as the specific distribution of choice, but I could be wrong. Would be an interesting choice considering all of the Ubuntu media turbulence.
I had heard at one stage that it would run some form of fedora. Will be interesting piece of hardware regardless.