Slashdot points to a recently released linux box that fits inside a standard RJ-45 Ethernet Jack.
World's Smallest Linux Box Fits in RJ-45 Jack: "An anonymous reader writes 'German electronics company Kleinhenz is shipping a network-enabled Linux system built into an RJ-45 Ethernet jack. 'Picotux' has a 55MHz ARM processor, 2MB of Flash, 8MB of RAM, a serial port, and five lines of GPIO. It measures 0.75 x 0.75 x 1.4 inches (19 x 19 x 36mm), and weighs 0.64 ounces (18 grams), packaged in a metal housing. A wireless 802.11 version appears to be on the horizon, too. So, if you've ever wanted to network-enable, say, a robot, boombox, or model airplane, this could be the system for you.' Is this really the world's smallest? It looks a bit chunkier than a tiny gumstix machine."
It's not high performance, but devices like this are opening up a new space for enduser product development, given linux's ability to run relatively low-demand applications on limited-resource machines. (And I thought the fact that I once ran Apache on my Sharp Zaurus, linux-based PDA was cool.)
[via Slashdot]
Posted by johndan at March 29, 2005 07:19 AM | TrackBack