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Cheap Linux wall warts small on size, big on possibilities

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“Every geek and technology lover will undoubtedly have stumbled
across online adverts for tiny headless Linux-powered devices that
are barely larger than the power point they plug into. What can you
actually do with them? Plenty, it seems!

“You know the devices; possibly the most well known is the
Marvell plug computer line. Its flagship product, the SheevaPlug,
offers a 1.2GHz ARM-compatible Marvell Sheeva processor, USB 2.0
and gigabit Ethernet, 512Mb Flash RAM and 512Mb DDR2 RAM.

“Those specifications are not anything to write home about,
particularly when you consider even the teeniest Netbook ships with
4Gb of flash memory.”


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