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Full Debian ARM for Under $200

Posted by timothy on from the neato-keen dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With minor elbow grease, you can now set yourself up with a complete Debian ARM Linux box for under $200. This is thanks to Peter Korsgaard, who figured out a cool byteswapped kernel hack for the little $99 Linksys NSLU2. Add a $99 USB harddrive, and the tiny, cute, quiet 'Slug' can run any of about 16,000 Debian ARM packages, 24x7, for pennies per month worth of electricity, since ARM is still orders of magnitude more power-efficient than anything x86. Serve files, music, web pages, printers, backups, kernel images, webcams/motion detection, firewalls/routers, wireless access point... or whatever. Oh, did I mention you can overclock the Slug?"

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  1. yes.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    but does it run windows?

  2. Dupe by SoloFlyer2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/ 18/031228&tid=222&tid=198&tid=156&tid=1 mind you it is a dupe from last year :P

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    1. Re:Dupe by SoloFlyer2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

      on closer examination...
      NOT A DUPE
      previous was just hacking into the NSLU2 and adding services... this is actually installing a whole new OS

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  3. Re:Ethernet not supported by pyrrhonist · · Score: 1, Redundant
    NOTE: First page says that the built-in ethernet isn't working under the Debian install yet. Not thinking this will be useful for most people.

    As I've said before, use the Unslung distribution instead.
    It works with the built-in Ethernet, and doesn't require a serial port hardware modification.

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