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$100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available

Posted by kdawson on from the not-to-be-confused-with-wal-mart dept.

nerdyH sends us to LinuxDevices for a description of a tiny Linux device called the Marvell SheevaPlug. "A $100 Linux wall wart could do to servers what netbooks did to notebooks. With the Marvell SheevaPlug, you get a completely open (hardware and software) Linux server resembling a typical wall-wart power adapter, but running Linux on a 1.2GHz CPU, with 512MB of RAM, and 512MB of Flash. I/O includes USB 2.0, gigabit Ethernet, while expansion is provided via an SDIO slot. The power draw is a nightlight-like 5 Watts. Marvell says it plans to give Linux developers everything they need to deliver 'disruptive' services on the device." The article links four products built on the SheevaPlug, none of them shipping quite yet. The development kit is available from Marvell.

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  1. Did anyone else read this as by nebaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    $100 Linux Wall-Mart now available? That would be cool.

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    1. Re:Did anyone else read this as by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

      No way man. I only buy in bulk. I'm not gonna get excited until I can get a $100 Sam's Club.

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    2. Re:Did anyone else read this as by mcgrew · · Score: 5, Funny

      I hope they sell them at Wal-mart. A Wal-mart Wall-Wart would be cool!

      Imagine a beowolf cluster of OW!! OW!! STOP HITTING ME!!!

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    3. Re:Did anyone else read this as by cthulu_mt · · Score: 5, Funny

      I imagine hitting you all the time.

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    4. Re:Did anyone else read this as by gparent · · Score: 5, Funny

      I imagine a Beowulf cluster of us hitting him.

  2. Re:Wall-Mart? by genner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why do I keep reading that as Wall-Mart?

    Because they got to you.

  3. Re:Beowulf Cluster by Miseph · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Or at least a small chunk of Nantucket, RI"

    That would be no small feat, seeing as Nantucket isn't in Rhode Island.

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  4. Re:I'll tell you why... by easyTree · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's always heartening when someone can't sling an insult correctly due to their own ignorance...

    It's You're a stupid nigger... (the apostrophe indicates dropped letters.

    For what it's worth I usually see this type of comment from someone who's trying to suppress homosexual urges involving dark-brown penises....

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  5. Re:Beowulf Cluster by Gospodin · · Score: 4, Funny

    It will be. It. Will. Be.

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  6. Re:trouble with cart? by Yetihehe · · Score: 4, Funny

    How is it even possible to screw something so simple like a shopping cart? Do they add items through rpc over carrier pigeons or what?

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  7. Re:How much for a multi-ethernet-port version? by sootman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Agreed. There are countless uses for something like this. 2009 will be the year of Linux in the outlet! ;-)

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  8. Re:Power over Ethernet by Perf · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm more interested in a version that supports PoE.

    That would be cool! Then you could add an inverter and power the outlet strip. ;-)

  9. Re:Power over Ethernet by argent · · Score: 5, Funny

    You, sir, are the reason they put warning labels on toothpicks. :)

  10. Re:I'll tell you why... by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 5, Funny

    I said it before and I'll say it again:
    Profanity is the last resort of desperately inarticulate motherfuckers.

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  11. Re:HEY! by ericdano · · Score: 4, Funny

    They were running the webserver on it so........it popped out of the wall.

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