[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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