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This tiny bit of hardware hidden under the shell shaped like a classic Soviet F1 hand grenade

Because only violent communists believe in the free flow of information.

But seriously, They'd probably be better off using a Picotux to forward traffic.

it may just look like a flock of birds

The street light banners in La Jolla, CA (92037) report "Design District". What is the design district of a city? Well, that means that some of the businesses, residences, and people here are not entirely random nature entropic dispersion--some of this is architecturally planned. The question is, then,"how much of 'some' is planned?" A: "How much is 'some' in Jurassic Park?"

Nearly _all_ of the seagulls and crows, and a good portion of the pigeons, in this area are either domesticated and trained or outright taxidermist prepared drones running on picotux.

picotux does not seem to be available anymore. That's too bad. :-(

Probably one of these:

http://www.picotux.com./ Good luck to them. :-)

Behold Picotux!

Or, less dramatically, gumstix.

The spacecube is cute, I admit, I'd be amused to have one; but the notion of it being the smallest is silly.

With processor, ethernet etc that fits into 35mm×19mm×19mm of space[1]. Basically the same OS as your file, printer, web and database servers...

This means that anything that size or bigger, could be running a set of software perfectly able to be compromised, and used as a springboard into other systems. Anything with a network port should have the same security policies applied as a server.

[1] e.g. http://www.picotux.com/techdatae.html

FitPC has nothing on these guys! http://www.picotux.com/

Adeptus

The smallest Linux computer in the world: Picotux!

These guys might know something about embedded Linux. The info page says uCLinux.

These guys might know something about embedded Linux. The info page says uCLinux.

It belongs on one of these.

I wonder what would happen if they could work with these guys.

The Picotux

No, this is small enough

Pico is already in use as a name for pre-programmed DigiConnect ME devices (uClinux, busybox, ARM processor...) that are the smaller cousins of the Gumstix. Now, once the USB-based version of the Gumstix comes along in memory-stick size range there will be another member of the "who's smallest" club.

They will be comeing out with a Power over Ethernet version.
Probably why they are offering the current versions with 10% off.
(I like the wireless)
http://www.picotux.com/ordere.html

"Power over Ethernet will be available soon."
http://www.picotux.com/producte.html

PoE, IEEE802.3af, Active Ethernet
  http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/what_is_poe.php

They will be comeing out with a Power over Ethernet version.
Probably why they are offering the current versions with 10% off.
(I like the wireless)
http://www.picotux.com/ordere.html

"Power over Ethernet will be available soon."
http://www.picotux.com/producte.html

PoE, IEEE802.3af, Active Ethernet
  http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/what_is_poe.php

Two links on the word "information" that go to different pages is poor design.

The link text should let you are going i.e. the link to "Technical Data" should be Technical Data

You mean the technical specs page?

http://www.picotux.com/

Then you'll like this - even smaller!

Linux can run on this thing (using a Linux version released last year). What makes you think it can't run on a 386 with 4MB of RAM?