Marvell Makes Plug Computing Easier

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Tim Higgins

Marvell Plug Computer Marvell has released a new installer for its Plug Computing software environment.

The open source Easy Plug Computer Installer (EPI) simplifies Plug Computing software deployment by providing a wizard-based installation tool.

EPI supports Marvell’s ARMADA 300/310 processor family and can be used to install Linux distributions, file systems, file system images or single applications. It provides USB key and HTTP-based list retrieval and is compatible with Fedora 11 (32/64bit), Ubuntu 9.04 (32bit), Windows XP SP2/3, and OSX (Leopard).

EPI and supporting information is currently available for download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/esia/.

Plug Computers are based on Marvell’s SheevaPlug SoC family and support multiple standard Linux 2.6 kernel distributions For more information, visit www.plugcomputer.org.

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