Cheap Linux Development Hardware, In Spades

An anonymous reader writes "I was happy when I saw this $160 PPC NAS development system two days ago. I was surprised to notice this this $157 x86 router development hardware yesterday. And I'm floored to see this$199 MIPS thin client development system today." (Read on for more.)

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All 3 are full of open-source goodness, and for a change the manufacturers actually *want* you to do development on them. The MIPS box even comes with schematics and the board layout.

This should be good news for everyone who hates replacing ancient fans, memory, and dying SCSI drives in their resurrected Sun, SGI, Apple, DEC, etc. workstations. Or anyone who's significant other dislikes them installing alternative operating systems on perfectly good consumer electronics.

A quote by well-known open source developer Erik Andersen about the Kuro Box (NAS device linked to above) sums it up pretty well:
'The great thing about a product like the Kuro Box is it gives me complete control so I can adapt the system as my needs change. Unlike single purpose devices that soon end up in the trash, the Kuro Box is built using 100% Open Source software. This gives me the power to customize, upgrade and enhance my Kuro Box to make it do whatever I can imagine.'"

Comments

Did I miss something?

[silverfuck]

$157 x86 router development hardware

What's wrong with me digging that old celeron-400 out of the corner, installing smoothwall on it, and shoving it away in the cupboard to serve out it's days? Why spend money for no reason? Why not put to use a computer that you would otherwise throw away to destroy the environment just a little bit more?

I'm hoping I've got something wrong here. what does m0n0wall do that smoothwall doesn't?

Slashdot advertises in stories now?

[jemfinch]

Is this the new way to get free advertising -- to post a slashdot story about your hardware running Linux?

Bor-ing.

Jeremy