[Lvlug] Waysmall Linux computer
Faber Fedor
faber at linuxnj.com
Wed Apr 28 23:49:22 EDT 2004
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:50:16PM -0400, Mark wrote:
> At first I wasn't going to say anything about this mini Linux computer but
> then I decided it was just way too cool. I just received one today from
> http://www.gumstix.com/ and it took about 5 minutes to get hooked up to it
> using minicom. It's a 200MHz Arm computer with 64MB RAM, a compact flash
> slot (up to 1 GB), two serial com ports and a usb connection for doing
> point-to-point networking using the Linux usbnet drivers. This thing is the
> sh**!
Oh, so that's why you haven't emailed me the information you were
supposed to, eh? Too bust playing with new toys! :-)
> The reason I wasn't going to say anything at first is because my focus was
> completely on hacking the hardware. I am using it for controlling data
> aquisition and controller hardware and even though I would only consider
> Linux devices I never thought just how cool this thing could be. This
> computer has no keyboard, display or mouse but it can run on 3 AA batteries
> and server web pages on the net! You gotta see it to believe it.
Does it come with a built-in web server? If so, which one? I want to
see XML-RPC work with it.
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Regards,
Faber
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