Wednesday, February 25, 2009

A computer the size of a network adapter.

The company Marvell announced the so-called "rozetochny computer SheevaPlug the size of a network adapter. His price was 49 dollars at an average cost of similar devices in the $ 200. Version developers will cost 99 dollars.
The device is equipped with a Marvell Sheeva CPU with 256 KB cache memory of the second level, running at a frequency of 1.2 gigahertz, 512 megabytes of DDR2 memory and 512 megabytes of flash memory. He has a USB 2.0 connector and Mini USB, and slot Gigabit Ethernet.
SheevaPlug supports various OS distributions on the kernel Linux, which gives users the choice of tens of thousands of applications for this platform. By default, SheevaPlug a distro based on Debian Linux.
Device power consumption which is only five watts, it is proposed to use as a home file or web server and print server. USB-port can, in particular, to connect to SheevaPlug large external drive.

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