Hackers Successfully Install Linux on a Potato!
I found this article below to be quite intriguing. After reading it, I immediately went to metalink to see if it was one of Oracle’s certified configurations. Sadly, I was disappointed when it wasn’t listed. I wanted to be the first DBA to ever run Oracle on Linux that runs on a potato. I can just see it now at Oracle Open World 2010, "Oracle 11gR2 on a RAC of potato clusters. Cheap, clean, and most of all very affordable!"
Next up, Tomatoes! You can scoop the seeds out and make room for more memory and storage 
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Amsterdam, Netherlands – 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.
The LOA group was in a race with another hacker group, the Stuttering Monarchs, to be the first to bag the potato. “The potato has been the vegetable that everyone has been gunning for, because it’s so versatile like Linux itself. You can boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew,” said Piest. “You’d think we’d get some sort of reward for this, but it’s all about bragging rights for us.”
LOA was the group that first installed Linux on a Shetland pony in 2003, but growing competition from other hacker groups have shut them out in the past five years.
“We were close to being the first with Linux on a cracker, but those jerks from Norway beat us out,” said Piest.
The first vegetable Linux install was on a head of iceberg lettuce by a group of hackers in Turkey.
Ontario Emperor said,
December 11, 2008 @ 9:13 am
The certified configuration people had better get on the ball!
A. Nonymous said,
January 13, 2009 @ 2:01 pm
I’m waiting on the yam version as I understand it’s not as buggy as the standard white baking potato version. Plus, it’s a well known fact that yams offer three times the memory capacity of your standard white baking potato and twice the memory capacity of a Yukon Gold.
shutupism said,
June 27, 2009 @ 8:27 am
Brian Briggs laughs every time people believe his hoaxes.
How about the one where Brian wrote Bill Gates went on for 15 minutes in a conference stating Linux is the best operating system in the world?
You guys are so gullible.
Thomas Roach said,
December 16, 2009 @ 11:41 am
Shutupism, I think we were all being sarcastic and playing along
… but thanks for showing up late to the party… errr… not showing up at all.