linuxdevices.com — A small company has begun building its line of tiny, gumstick-sized board-level computers into miniscule packaged PCs that displace around 68 cc of volume and come with Linux pre-installed. Suggested apps for the teeny Linux PCs include webservers, printer servers, IP-telephony servers, security appliances..... you name it!
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josepuertoSep 22, 2006
omg myspace is soooo much better than digg lolz
Closed AccountSep 22, 2006
I love the way everyone keeps saying web server for anything that's running linux. How long do you think a site like Digg would last on one of these?It might be practical to put some near-static (if not static) site that nobody visits on one of them but there's a good reason why companies like Intel, AMD, Sun, IBM etc keep making bigger and better hardware.
futarisSep 22, 2006
Old, old, old...
mrynitSep 22, 2006
i really dont see the market for lowend small computers. i would have to see some preformace benchmarks before buying some thing like that.
beplacidSep 22, 2006
@r2d7: You're obviously no expert. Perhaps read the article before commenting. If you'd have even bothered to investigate, digg.com does run on GNU/Linux (ref: <a class="user" href="http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.digg.com)">http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.digg.com)</a> but it'd probably do quite well on one of these. Noone, in the vicinity of our universe ever said these were aimed at enterprise level applications. The ida of these is to 'plug-n-play' features of your network infrastructure. In my opinion, these would be a great gadget for when say, an internal web server goes down, or the printer server is going t**s up!
rasputnikSep 22, 2006
Blackdog is absolutely dreadful; leet name and no useful features : <a class="user" href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/pocketserver.ars">http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/pocketserver.ars</a>To the 'I can buy a dell for $300' crowd : this is a wearable computer (does your dell run on 5V battteries? Can you sew it into your shirt collar?)That said, this ships with php, and the webserver is lighttpd. ruby also comes as an option. This can do a lot more than static files.
jqp123Sep 22, 2006
These are nice and small but not terribly cost effective IMO. All things considered, the mini-ITX form factor offers a *lot* more bang for the buck. My favorite mini-ITX vendor is: www.ntavo.comThese are sold as thin-client terminals but I use them for other things as well. I've taken their low end $149 model, added a laptop HD and installed Win98, WinXP, Win2k3 Server, DSL Linux and FreeBSD. Not as small as GumStix but still very compact. The photos on their web site don't provide a good visual frame of reference to determine size.
n1qawSep 22, 2006
I know its a lot of if and when, but isn't yellow river's Municator offering much cheaper and more powerful? yeah, bigger but if that means twice the speed and memory.....
madowynSep 22, 2006
How about this for cool.<a class="user" href="http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2142584362.html">http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2142584362.html</a>"Flocks of unmanned aircraft form Bluetooth Linux clusters"
brianez21May 15, 2007
pron!