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Contiki Ported To x86

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the reuse-is-recycling dept.

lt writes "The ultra-small Contiki OS has now been ported to the x86. This should give those of you who have an old x86 PC that is too small to run even the smallest of Linux variants, a chance to browse the web, set up a web server, and doing other essential stuff. If you're curious to see how it looks, there is a live VNC demo running."

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  1. story translation by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    the smallest os for the weakest puniest computers still in existence goes live.

    click on this vnc link here to blow to smithereens.

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  2. Live VNC by alta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why don't you go ahead and say, "There was a live vnc running", or maybe "or maybe there might be a live vnc running in the distant future" but never say "there is a live vnc running..."

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    Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
  3. New headline for article by BillBrasky · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just in!

    14 MHz web server Slashdotted! Oh the humanity!

  4. holy melted silicone, batman! by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 5, Funny
    live VNC demo running.

    What kind of sick bastard would slashdot a VNC connection? It's bad enough when you do it to an image file server or a site with a video or ISO, but a VNC CONNECTION on a computer that is too low powered for even Linux? What is wrong with you people?

  5. Hold your misspellings, Robin! by swb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Silicone is for making tits bigger and keeping water in the tub.

    Silicon is what chips are made of.

    1. Re:Hold your misspellings, Robin! by -brazil- · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ha! Everyone knows chips are made from potatoes.

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      The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
      --Henry Kissinger

  6. From BEYOND THE GRAVE!!! by digitalgiblet · · Score: 4, Funny
    I just hope Thor Heyerdahl doesn't slap him with a patent suit.

    MAN! Everybody's suing these days. Old ladies who pour scalding coffee on their crotches, smokers, gun nuts, now DEAD anthropologists? Where will the madness end?

  7. Re:1541? by yomegaman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, if only that processor in the 1541 had some sort of mass storage device attached to it...

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    ...wearing a skin-tight topless leather jumpsuit, with cutaway buttocks and transparent crotch panel.