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Does Vortex86sx based devices are worth something?

February 20th, 2009

At FOSDEM 2009 I grabbed one Vortex86SX based device — Koala Nano PC which is available at Koan software. Device came with Ångström distribution and was running 2.6.26 kernel. I wanted to get something more fresh on it and after some fighting I booted 2.6.29-rc5 kernel today.

Device use Vortex86SX SoC which is based on 486SX [...]

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Small does not mean powerless

June 9th, 2007

Koen’s post about AVR32 Network Gateway and few posts on usenet reminded me that many people still think that small devices are crap and lack power to do anything.

Do they? I think that not. Here I use two small embedded devices:

Linksys NSLU2 as NFS server (plans are to add TFTP, Samba, CUPS and Bluetooth AP) Linksys [...]

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