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World's Smallest Linux Box Fits in RJ-45 Jack
An anonymous reader writes "German electronics company Kleinhenz is shipping a network-enabled Linux system built into an RJ-45 Ethernet jack. "Picotux" has a 55MHz ARM processor, 2MB of Flash, 8MB of RAM, a serial port, and five lines of GPIO. It measures 0.75 x 0.75 x 1.4 inches (19 x 19 x 36mm), and weighs 0.64 ounces (18 grams), packaged in a metal housing. A wireless 802.11 version appears to be on the horizon, too. So, if you've ever wanted to network-enable, say, a robot, boombox, or model airplane, this could be the system for you." Is this really the world's smallest? It looks a bit chunkier than a tiny gumstix machine.
The "nothing to see here, please move along" comment finally makes sense.
Please do not eat Picotux.
in other words, imagine a 24-port network switch! :P
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet
Yes but will it run Windows N
Dunno. But it might run Windows T: The official OS of Bosco Baracus. I pity the foo' who don't run dat version!
Where is the LCD screen?!
...will be in the next version (with appologies to Dilbert).
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Witherworth: "Jenkins!!!!"
Jenkins: "Yes Boss?"
Witherworth: "The server is DOWN. Your department spent our good money on that "Luxux" or whatever you call it. What the hell can be wrong with it?"
Jenkins: "Ermmm. sorry, sir. I sneezed and it blew out the window."
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
One ring to call them all
One ringtone to find them
One glowing keypad to annoy them all
And in the darkness blind them
In the land of Nokia where the shadows lie.
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I'm imagining a Beowolf cluster of Walmart sweaters.
The gumstix has a larger surface area, the gumstix has a larger average visual cross section when viewed from a random angle. German shipping services like to define the size of a packet, for the purpose of determining fees, as the sum of of its dimensions.
Which is smaller - a gumstix or a sheet of paper ? If you say it's the gumstix, then the picotux is smaller.
Otherwise it does not make sense! The german postal service says the picotux is smaller, so the picotux is smaller; but what do shipping fees in Germany, which are paid in Euro, have to do with the size of the gumstix in comparison to the picotux ? And why am I comparing it to mice which are mammals which are rodents of the genus Mus as computer input devices ? It does not make sense.
Therefore you must admit the picotux is smaller.
It's the most effective kind, duh.
That thing will NEVER pass an evil packet!
Reinvent the wheel only at either a lower cost, greater effectiveness, or your own personal enrichment and satisfaction.
but can you fit that bang up your bung?
"This picotux. This picotux was in your Daddy's pocket when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured and put in a Vietnamese prison camp. Now he knew if the gooks ever saw the picotux it'd be confiscated. The way your Daddy looked at it, that picotux was your birthright. And he'd be damned if and slopeheads were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'. His ass. Five long years, he wore this picotux up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the picotux. I hid with uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the picotux to you."
music lover since 1969
I'm holding out for the Linux enabled dental crown -- with Bluetooth. /ducks
Take that Mac Mini!!
Philosophy.
See? Because of me they have a warning.
This doesn't mean it will be easy to find this device once they notice the traffic.
You shouldn't forget the bash.org No. 1 quote
Linux is not Windows