You can always try it on their own desktop hardware, which is pretty cheap: http...

You can always try it on their own desktop hardware, which is pretty cheap: http://www.jide.com/en/mini

I have no idea how open it is to modification in practice, though. I might consider trying it if I can get a proper shell on it (similar to the Android shell you get in an emulator when using 'adb shell'), even if I cannot fork their DE code itself.