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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. Re:Already hacked by sw155kn1f3 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I guess you're just a troll. But in case you just don't know anything about the subject, here's the tip:
    You cannot run precompiled x86 debian apps on ARM.

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