Mark Lanctot Wrote: > The Linux kernel can be very highly optimized and doesn't require nearly > the resources Windows does - besides, for a device like this that's > merely displaying a configuration web page and doing some underlying > work, Windows isn't needed. Plus Windows would be prohibitively > expensive to put in so many devices. All true, of course, although the Linux monopoly isn't quite complete. LaCie's NAS runs some "mini" version of XP. Earlier versions of the firmware were hackable so that an intrepid user could install slimserver, but more recent versions have closed the loophole (see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19808).
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