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The NetBSD Toaster

Posted by timothy on from the pluggy-but-fun dept.

kv9 writes "Finally after many, many yeas of running on everything-but-your-toaster NetBSD is there too. Technologic Systems has made a toaster that is controlled by NetBSD and powered by one of their ARM boards, the TS-7200. Everything is controlled through sysctl, there are LEDs that show you what is going on, the toaster can play MP3s while it fries the bread and even has Apache/PHP installed. More information in the press release [pdf warning] and on this running NetBSD on the TS-7200 page."

10 of 229 comments (clear)

  1. So... by Knight+Thrasher · · Score: 5, Funny
    If it crashes, does your toast get burnt?

    The BTOD? Black Toast of Death?

  2. Server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess their server is toast.

  3. Wait, this story confuses me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a little confused by this story.

    Did Netcraft just confirm that my toaster is dead?

  4. I don't think so.... by jericho4.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This might be appropriate for a single guy on a budget, but we all know that scaling problems will keep this from being deployed in any serious environment.

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    1. Re:I don't think so.... by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you had a beowulf cluster of these, you could toast a whole loaf at once!

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  5. Re:Already Dead by leonardluen · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...it fries the bread and even has Apache/PHP installed."

    that will teach them to run their webserver on a toaster!

  6. As always by iamdrscience · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just proves how ahead of its time Amiga was. The Video Toaster came out in 1990. Now, 15 years later, someone finally puts another system on a toaster and it doesn't even have video! Maybe another 15 and the world will catch up.

  7. 2005 is... by crimson_alligator · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the year of BSD on the countertop!

  8. If only... by MiddleHitter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, if only NetBSD ran a garbage-disposal, we could say that NetBSD runs everything and the kitchen sink!

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  9. Dave Lister had one 3 million years from now by davidwr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Th is one talked.

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