Submitted by “These machines are the ultimate in small form factor, trading power and performance for size, portability and convenience. The navigation of this tradeoff is of paramount concern: give up too much power, and the device is useless; too little, and it’ll be inconveniently large. I’ve taken a look at how two products, The BlackDog Pocket Linux Server and the Waysmall 200BT, navigate these waters.”
The thing is, you still gotta use a keyboard and monitor to do anything with it. So now you are in the same boat as these folks:
http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=12913&comment_id=70545
So I dunno. I guess if you are on a car or boat where the gumstick goes into a closet and you hardly ever interface to it manually, that might be good.
I see that GRML has a “small” version for USB pocket flash. It’s claimed to be Linux for geeks and sysadmins, just like this article.
Nice post.
it seems like a good idea for ipvs. just get a bunch of waysmall’s connect them to 1 system through usb, use nfs to share the docroot for web stuff, start the web server on the waysmalls and just configure ipvs. portable web cluster right there <|;-p
I was thinking of getting a couple waysmalls (actually gumstix and building a custom case) and running a tor router, or simular public good application, and letting them run on my home and work networks. Just a ‘geek-fun’ way of contributing to the world. If they had an ultra low power version that could be powered by ethernet that would be even better.
has pocket multimedia ideas too. http://www.glomationinc.com