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Hackers Successfully Install Linux on a Potato

Hackers from the LinuxOnAnything.nl Web site successfully installed Linux on a potato. It’s the first time the operating system has been successfully installed on a root vegetable.

“A potato doesn’t have a CPU, memory or storage space, so it was quite a challenge,” said Johan Piest of the Linux on Anything (LOA) group. “Obviously we couldn’t use a large distribution like Fedora or Ubuntu, so we went with Damn Small Linux.”

After weeks of trying the group got a Linux kernel specially modified for a potato loaded, and were able to edit a small text file in vi. Linux was loaded onto the potato using a USB thumb drive and commands were sent in binary to the potato using a set of red and black wires.

The LOA group is a part of a growing group of hackers attempting to get Linux loaded on anything. It started on electronic devices like Gameboys and iPods, but recently groups have taken on tougher challenges like light bulbs and puppies.

DEAR LORD I’M LAUGHING SO HARD.

Also, glados would like this.

…wat

pffffffthahahahha

I hope to glados the words on the text file were “BECAUSE I’M A POTATO.”

As A.J. so succinctly put it: “I don’t even know what that means!”

Seriously, I don’t. But it has the flavor of awesome (and not just because it’s a potato).

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   “but recently groups have taken on tougher challenges like light bulbs and puppies.” PUPPIES?!!?!??!?!!

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   Hackers Successfully Install Linux on a Potato...Hackers from the LinuxOnAnything.nl Web...

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    Amazing comments: ‘Really hungry for mashed potato now.’ ‘Really hungry for bashed potato now.’ ‘Really hungry for some...

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    Oh, Hi. So How are you holding up? BECAUSE I’M A POTATO!

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    I don’t know what the hell is going on anymore 8U

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    Every so often something comes along like this that just confuses the hell out of me.

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