From: "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton@...>
Date: 2006-02-23T19:33:01+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby on gumstix

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:43:49PM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> >Looks like I will have a chance to play around with a small fleet of
> >Gumstix (http://www.gumstix.org/). Does anyone have any experience with
> >ruby on them? (They have linux 2.6 on flash, Intel XScale processor, and
> >gcc 3.4 toolchain, so it seems hopeful...)
> 
> Duuude. I'm drooling here.
> 
> If I had infinite time, I'd be sticking Linux add-ons to my
> toaster and coffeemaker.

You don't need infinite time but something easy to port :)

http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm (porting report & technical details)
http://wickedways.org/articles/linuxworld2005/ (toaster pics)

That thing is no ADDON. NetBSD is *driving* the toaster. And oh yeah. Ruby
should run on it, too :)

Regards,

-Martin