The Open Desktop Workstation, also referred to as ODW is a PowerPC based computer, by San Antonio-based Genesi. The ODW has an interchangeable CPU card allowing for a wide range of PowerPC microprocessors from IBM and Freescale Semiconductor.

It is a standardized version of the Pegasos II. It was the first open-source based PowerPC computer and gave PowerPC a host/target development environment. Genesi released the complete specification (design and component listing) free of charge. The ODW-derived Home Media Center won the Best in Show award at the Freescale Technology Forum in 2005. It also features an ATI certification and a "Ready for IBM Technology" certification.

It supports a variety of operating systems such as MorphOS, Linux, QNX and OpenSolaris. Manufacturing of the ODW was discontinued in favor of the EFIKA architecture.

Specification

• Freescale 1.0GHz MPC7447 processor

• 512MB DDR RAM (two slots, up to 2GB)

• 80GB ATA100 hard disk

• Dual-Layer DVD±RW Drive

• Floppy disk support

• 3× PCI slots

• AGP based ATI Radeon 9250 graphics (DVI, VGA and S-Video out)

• 4× USB

• PS/2 mouse and keyboard support

• 3× FireWire 400 (two external)

• 2× Ethernet ports, 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit

• AC'97 sound – in/out, analog and digital (S/PDIF)

• PC game/MIDI-port

• Parallel and serial ports (supporting IrDA)

• MicroATX motherboard (236×172mm)

• Small Footprint Case - (92×310×400mm)

References

External links

• Genesi's ODW page

• ODW specification at PowerDeveloper.org

• Linux resources for ODW at Freescale