Here’s the 8th edition of CNX Software giveaway week! I’ll have seven items to give away to readers in the 2021 event with some help from two companies as I was short on available samples this year.
We’ll start with NanoPi R2S gateway based on Rockchip RK3328 SoC, and equipped with 1 GB DDR4 RAM as well as two Gigabit Ethernet ports.
I reviewed NanoPi R2S gateway at the end of last year with Armbian built Ubuntu 20.04 Focal, and it performed well under load thanks to the metal enclosure and optimized OS. The main downside is having a USB 2.0 port, especially if you intend to use it as external storage, but that’s the cost of having two Gigabit Ethernet ports on Rockchip RK3328 SoC, with one of those using the USB 3.0 interface.
The giveaway includes the board and metal enclosure. It is already fully assembled. So you’ll just need a 5V/3A USB power adapter and MicroSD card to get started.
To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say. If the country is missing, I’ll consider the entry void. Other rules are as follows:
- Only one entry per contest. I will filter out entries with the same IP and/or email address.
- Contests are open for 48 hours starting at 10 am (Bangkok time) every day.
- Comments will be closed after 48 hours. If comments are open, the contest is still going on.
- Winners will be selected with random.org, and announced in the comments section of each giveaway.
- I’ll contact the winner by email, and I’ll expect an answer within 24 hours, or I’ll pick another winner.
- Note that I may not be able to contact people who log in with Facebook, Twitter, or Google, so it’s better to use an email address to enter the draw.
- Shipping
- $9 for registered airmail small packet for overseas shipping payable via PayPal within 48 hours once the contest (for a given product) is complete.
- If Paypal is not available in your country, you can still play, and I’ll cover the cost of sending the parcel by Sea and Land (SAL) without registration if you win.
- I’ll post all prizes at the same time, around the 11th of November, except for products shipped directly by companies which will be handled separately.
- I’ll make sure we have 7 different winners, so if you have already won a device during this giveaway week, I’ll draw another person.
Good luck!
If you don’t end up winning and you’d like to buy the NanoPi R2S gateway with the metal case, you can do so on Amazon or Aliexpress for $60 and up.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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Thailand
USA
How nice if i get it. I will test board.
Singapore
New Zealand
singapore
United States
United States
Vietnam
Canada
New Zealand
Italy
India
Australia
India, looking forward to run openwrt and wireguard on this for a secure homenetwork
Brazil
Russia
Australia
Australia
China.
Thanks for the various informative articles on CNX!
Australia
France
Germany
France
Turkey and thanks for the review
France
Taiwan
Taiwan.
Hello
Thailand
South Africa
Greetings from Turkey
Poland 🙂 and my New dev kit, thanks to ikea for tablet stand
Turkey
Poland
Ukraine
Singapore
France
Sweden
Israel
Poland
Sweden!
Hello from Switzerland !
Thanks 🙂
I’d like to have it. Thailand
poland
India 🇮🇳
France. Great asset I would love to try out ! Great job on cnx !
Czech Republic
France !!
Germany
France ! Thanks for your work and give a hope for those boards you test a new life
Hungary
Netherlands
Romania. I really want one !
France
Serbia
Poland
Germany
Italy!
The Netherlands, give away week. just want the doctor prescribed 🙂
Hungary. Keep up the good work!
Netherlands. Love the reviews, love the giveaways!
France
Greetings from Sweden!
Poland
France
Germany
Serbia
France, I would love to replace my ISP router by this one with openwrt.
Greece
Australia, would be nice to win
Greetings from Germany 🙂
Italy
Thanks for all your review
I forget, I’m from France
Finland
A good fit to replace my current openmptcprouteur 🙂
France.
France
Spain
Netherlands
Germany
Malaysia
france
England
Italy
USA. It’s good for running OpenWrt
France !
Belgium!
Germany
Russia
Russia
Germany
France
FRANCE
Japan!
Spain here!
New reader this year from the telegram channel!
Keep up the good work!
Italy
new zealand
Brazil. I’m in!
Spain, thanks!
Never luck at the giveaway
Greece
Poland
Denmark, cheers!
Russia
Vietnam, It’s good to study Openwrt
Vietnam
Greetings from Brazil !
Australia
Thailand
Serbia
Spain
Croatia
Russia
USA
United States
Germany.
Thanks for your posts and engaging information on hardware.
Germany. Let it come to Germany!
England, would make a lovely router/firewall and save me buying a Celeron
Portugal
Thank you for the opportunity.
France.
Thank you so much for your work.
It would be great to get. I would show it on you tube. It would be nice.
U.S.A.
Sweden
Brazil, your reviews are awesome!
France 😀
France
USA!
The Netherlands
UK
Germany
Latvia
Indonesia, wkwkwk
Country: India
Poland
United States
dual gig ethernet on a rk3328 sounds like fun.
Viet Nam
Thank you for your embedded infomations
India
Belarus
US
U>S>A
Poland – great work BTW.
Canada, eh!
Poland
USA
Ukraine
USA
United States
United States
UK. What a nice little device!
Ukraine
France
Greeting from Singapore!
Singapore. Thanks for the giveaway!
United States
Love SBC-based home infrastructure 🙂
Czech Republic [CZ] is a beautiful country with wonderful nature and rich historic heritage conserved thaks to the communist-era stagnation. You should definitely visit us here.
Poland
USA – this will make a nice router with DNS filtering
Portugal
The United States of America
(Republic of California)
Canada
Germany
HELLAS aka greece
China
USA – Would love to play around with one of these!
Vietnam
USA
The Netherlands
New York, USA
Portugal
thanks for this. usa
USA
France
Turkey, need for avoiding state tracking
Poland
France
Latvia
USA
Poland
Slovakia
USA. Keep doing what you do. This is one of the best ways for all of us to find out about this stuff.
+1
Poland
United States
Malta, EU 🙂
Hi, I need to win something, USA
USA
Greece
Poland, I hope that you can see my e-mail attached to my WordPress Account.
Portugal
Thank you!
Poland
I was more curious about this version because I used the previous version.
Greetings from Turkey.
South Africa
turkey
Czech Republic
Bulgaria, looks interesting
Paraguay
Switzerland
France
Greetings from Austria
USA
Germany
France
By the way, thanks for this website you are do an amazing job !
Thank you !
Italy
Estonia
Latvia
Poland
Morocco
Los in the middle of Sweden
Divided States of America – Let’s Go Brandon!
Portugal
Germany
Brazil here
Turkey. Good luck everyone:)
Australia 🇦🇺
Poland!
Wow! So many people want this! Not me though 😀
I’ll put my country in another one of giveaways I’m sure.
USA
Taiwan
Belgium
Thailand
United States
Canada
Poland
Hong Kong
Belgium
Brazil
Malaysia
Greece
United States
United States of America
Brazil – great site Jean-Luc, thx!!
USA
Yes, please… 🙂
Ukraine
Belarus
Ukraine
US Thanks for the invite
Finland
Germany
Looks interesting! 🙂
Germany
UK
Germany
India.
May the odds be ever in my favor!
Turkey
France
Taiwan
A far more powerful replacement for my current home Firewall / NAT-router.
Belgium
france
Australia
Poland
Luxembourg
Hello from Spain
Spain. I’m in
Macedonia
France
Poland
Hungary
france
great competition
The Netherlands
Poland. Sorry for the duplicated entry, country was missing.
Austria
Poland
India
Portugal
France
Slovenia
United States
Cheers!
USA
Serbia
Netherlands
USA
United Kingdom
Canada
Greece. Keep up the excellent job.
France
USA
Spain
Italy
Poland
CH
Brazil. Cool product.
The Netherlands
Perfect for OpenVoiceOS support / development.
Greece
Germany
Finland
Hungary
France
Hi from Romania.
Israel
Spain
Chile, this board would habe been great for tinyPilot
Home Server
NanoPi R2S gateway ought to be popular and we got close to 300 entries with more exactly 294 participants.
Time for the draw with random.org: #9
That would be Jason Piercy. Congratulations! I’ve contacted you by email.