Will Linux Work? Your chance to try and kill a cute little Linux box

by Dave Rosenberg August 1, 2008 2:54 PM PDT Follow @dr138

It's getting hot in here.

Plat'home, the maker of some very tiny Linux boxes is conducting an online contest to solicit ideas for the most interesting and challenging conditions to successfully run Plat'Home's OpenMicroServers. The best idea winner will be asked to test the server in their suggested condition and report the results back to Plat'Home.

If it works like you wanted, you get to keep the OpenMicroServers. If not, then the servers will probably be dead anyway. Fun and destruction go hand-in-hand!

Official rules are on the Plat'home blog.

Previously:
Japan's Plat'Home launches palm-sized Linux server for extreme heat and cold conditions
Plat'Home launches coffee-cup-sized Linux network box

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In "Software, Interrupted," Dave Rosenberg discusses disruption in the software market, as well as the products and services that keep business technology norms in perpetual flux.

With more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience spanning from Bell Labs to multiple start-up IPOs, he is CEO and founder of Nodeable, co-founder of MuleSoft, and serves as managing director for Hardy Way. He also happens to be a U.S. patent holder and a workaholic. Technology is his best friend and mortal enemy.

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