Full Debian ARM for Under $200 233
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?"
So... the question on everyone's mind is... (Score:3, Funny)
It may have... (Score:2, Funny)
(sorry)
Decent file server... (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you, thank you.
What about... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Practically useless (Score:4, Funny)
Yes!
And so am I. Please enlighten us as to why people hate ARM now.
Serve This! (Score:4, Funny)
And be served with an RIAA lawsuit!
If you're gonna go there... (Score:5, Funny)
Buying largue quantities means you're exercising your right to bear ARMs.
People running to get them are conducting an ARMs race.
A beowulf cluster of these will be called an ARMy
Stallman's creating an OS specifically for this called GNU/HARM
They're marketing it and calling it a Linux-Installed Micro Box System (LIMBS) with a monitor called a Linux-Embedded Graphics Station (LEGS)
Re:More Secure? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:If you're gonna go there... (Score:3, Funny)
A black-hat hacker with one of these, can be considered ARMed and Dangerous.
Someone lend me a hand here, because boy is my ARM tired...
you can always beat a dead joke, with your ARM.
$define(funny,%pARM)
If your box ever gets lost or stolen don't forget to shout "I've lost my ARM"
If you don't keep debian patched, you're APT to say someone Root-ed around in your ARM.