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A Linux Machine For Your Collar

Posted by timothy on from the eudaemonic-pie dept.

MadSaxon writes "gumstix.org has a brief but titillating description of a very small Linux machine based on the PXA255: 20 x 80 mm, '64MB SDRAM, 4MB Flash, MMC/SD/SDIO slot, and power management. It takes 3.6V - 5.0V power, and has been drawing under 200 mA.' It weighs less than 12g sans battery, and 'can fit in a collar undetected.' Is collar-top computing the Next Big Thing?"

6 of 318 comments (clear)

  1. This by deliciousmonster · · Score: 0, Troll

    Rhymes with "betarded"

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  2. Well by paranode · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is collar-top computing the Next Big Thing?

    Does Linux have SCO IP in it? ;)

  3. Watch how the liberals run by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    The good old bastion of leftwing propaganda (thinly disguised as a news corporation) is taking it up the arse right now.

    The chairman has resigned and heads are expected to roll. What a pleasure to watch how the bleeding-heart liberal socialists run when their lies have been uncovered.

  4. Re:Ohh sexy jewelry :o) by Mysticalfruit · · Score: -1, Troll

    Offtopic comment....
    <p>
    <i>As an European, I am aware of two historical mistakes of my nation - to colonize America and to give Americans the Web.</i>
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    Unless I am gravely mistaken, wasn't all the ground work for the internet done in the United States and then exported like McDonalds to the rest of the world?
    <p>
    Maybe your sig should be... <i>... and to let the Americans export the web.</i>

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  5. As with all things Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope to hell that I'm not going to have to recompile the damn OS everytime it decides to shit on me.

  6. Question is... by PatrickThomson · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does it run Windows?

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