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It is impressive that that they were able to run linux without making permanent destructive changes. Had a pogoplug that I was able to repurpose as a linux ser

by devsda 4y ago

It is impressive that that they were able to run linux without making permanent destructive changes. Had a pogoplug that I was able to repurpose as a linux server for some odd cron jobs and occasional backups. Assuming there are no such constraints to revert, what other general purpose consumer devices are hack friendly and can be turned into low powered linux boxes ?

trevithick 4y ago
Check out the OpenWRT Table of Hardware.[0] It runs on all kinds of stuff. [0] https://openwrt.org/toh/start https://openwrt.org/toh/start
RobotToaster 4y ago
Not exactly a consumer device, but old thin clients are cheap and can be repurposed this way.
- rbanffy 4y ago
  And the x86 ones are just PCs, so all the software bringup part is trivial (which is why I managed to succeed at that ;-) )
thomastjeffery 4y ago
It's an Android TV box. It was running Linux already. The main difficultly is usually unlocking the bootloader.
- rbanffy 4y ago
  Getting an updated kernel is also an issue - the article describes the device tree hacks they had to go through before the machine was usable.
  - anthk 4y ago
    That's my issue with PostmarketOS and the Pocket Chip and the 7" Android Netbook.
reginaldo 4y ago
Take a look at https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported as well