This is a development the folks at Amazon likely weren’t expecting.
Seems that some enterprising soul out there, whom you might recognize when I tell you it’s Jesse Vincent, managed to get his recently-released Kindle 2 ebook from Amazon to run Ubuntu 9.04.
He apparently did it for no other reason than 1. to prove it could be done in the first place and 2. to get some serious geek cred at Foo Camp last weekend, where he showed off his new, previously unheard of Linux Kindle.
The practical ramifications of this do escape me somewhat, but even I’ve got to admit, as a concept, it’s still pretty cool.
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Believe it or not, packed inside this plug is a tiny 1.2Ghz computer. Called the Marvell SheevePlug, it’s designed to act as a low powered server running a flavor of Linux, you know for email and stuff. Other features include 512MB of RAM, 512MB of flash storage, and a USB and Ethernet port. If anything it might be a good option as a low powered Bit Torrent server or a means to putting some of those spare hard drive online.
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Newegg has the unusual Shuttle K-4500-N Linux Desktop Box. It’s $200 – $5 instant savings + $13 S&H = $208 Shipped!
Features:
- 2Ghz Intel Celeron 440 processor + Linux OS
- 512MB of RAM + 80GB hard drive
Buy it: Shuttle K-4500-N Linux Desktop Box – $208
