A list of Linux-toting devices in my house

My house is full of things that use the Linux kernel, and many of these use BusyBox to provide functionality. I decided to catalogue them because, frankly, I'm dull.

Computers

  • Ghetto laptop HTPC thingy (as seen on this blog in the past)
  • Our five year old Toshiba laptop
  • My Dell laptop that I use for work-related shenanigans
  • My aged Asus Eee 701
  • My even more aged, not turned-on-for-four-years-yet-it-still-takes-up-space desktop PC dual boots to Ubuntu 6.06 - so old I can't even remember the animal name.

Not computers

  • My Android phone (an HTC Desire)
  • Our Amazon Kindle
  • My Chumby One
  • Our TV. LG uses Linux for the firmware; you can get a copy of the source on request. There's a serial port on the back which, far from being a debug-only affair, can actually control the TV. The manual even lists the commands to send it to achieve this.
  • My cheap Emprex 'PVR' thing. I got it mainly for recording stuff I want to keep off our Sky+ box, but it's actually a (to be fair, pretty limited) Linux device.
  • A Linksys WRT54G router - although I've promised this to @Nermal
  • A Linksys NSLU2 NAS "thing", which has been superseded by...
  • A Pogoplug (both do the same thing - share USB drives over the network - but the Pogoplug is significantly more powerful, while drawing less, erm, power).
  • My Dingoo A320 is rocking Dingux - allows for a load more emulators and games.
  • Our Wii has been upgraded with a WODE - which runs Linux on its tiny parasitic board (to the point where it favours an ext2 file system).
  • And finally, somewhere in the house I've got a Juicebox that I started hacking and gave up on because my solder skillz were too lacking at the time.
There may be more, but I've not bothered looking - surely 16 devices with a Linux kernel is enough for any household?
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