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World's Smallest Linux Box Fits in RJ-45 Jack

Posted by timothy on from the nearly-swallowable dept.

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.

4 of 347 comments (clear)

  1. MINE IS GONNA BE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Once upon a time I totally made kernel level software dedicated to first posting slashdot.

    A distributed SLASHDOT FIRST POST POSTER MACHINE. DEDICATED hardware DEDICATED TO FIRST POSTING SLASHDOT.

  2. HAH! Okay, Windows Trolls! by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 0, Troll


    Let's see you cram WINDOWS into that space!

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    Mod this troll, mod this flamebait! Is that all you got, huh? Are you nuts? Come at me!

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  3. Not really Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Anything on a amr 7TDMI isn't really linux. You need a memory manager in hardware (ARM9). This system is tool limited to be full featured, yet costs too much by how much ram and flash running 'linux' neccessitates. Otherwise you might as well just use something like NutOS (www.ethernut.de) for this with far less ram and flash. Or go with a ARM9 and run 'real' linux. Pretty Pointless.

  4. Obviously worthless by smcdow · · Score: 1, Troll

    Doesn't run Windows. No market.

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