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ProgrammingSocks ,

My iMac G3 is running Debian 6!

GuyNoIRQ ,
@GuyNoIRQ@infosec.pub avatar

iMac G3

wow, an operating system on a computer, sounds so improbable :P

ProgrammingSocks ,

The computer is older than me :)

kuneho ,
@kuneho@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not entirelly Linux, but there’s a port of FUZIX for the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller

gamey ,
@gamey@feddit.rocks avatar

I haven’t done it myself but I own a Pinephone (Linux phone) and that completely isolates the modem to prevent closed source code on the main OS and apparently that runns Linux, not sure if it counts because it’s technically Linux already but someone hosted his blog on that and wrote about it!

zikk_transport2 ,

My roborock S5 (vacuum robot) can be hacked and I can access it via ssh. Not alot of ram, armv7 CPU, but it can run docker. One time I managed to play internet radio over terminal, so it plays music and vacuums my home. Nice 😎

LiveLM ,

You reminded me of a blog post by Tailscale where they jailbreak their robot vacuum and install a Open-source replacement for the cloud functionality

blindbunny ,

Didn’t someone get a cuecat working? It’s been a while since I’ve seen it.

Rogueren ,
@Rogueren@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

A PS4 can be jailbroken to run Linux. You can then install Steam and Halo and have Halo on Linux on PS4

ViciousTurducken ,

Back in the day some iPhones could run janky forms of Android/Linux. I don’t think it ever got to daily driver status but it was surprisingly feature complete.

wim ,

A hard disk. Not boot from a hard disk, but the hard disk controller is actually made to run Linux: spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1

LainOfTheWired ,
@LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol avatar

Didn’t they get at least the kernel running on a Nintendo 64

Zangoose ,

Not sure about a Nintendo 64 but I’ve definitely seen it on the switch and 3ds

MonkderZweite ,

Did anyone manage to hack a CD/DVD drive to run Linux on it?

Drito ,

The PS3 is not crazy, but has an exotic hardware that optionnally runs Linux.

zabi94 ,

A business card

Evil_Shrubbery ,

Idk, needs more e-waste :(

pastermil ,

Tell that to Samsung!

Evil_Shrubbery ,

I would tell the government to tell Samsung, but they aren’t as big (and/or they ‘like’ Samsung more).

sounddrill ,

Not as impressive but I got a oneplus one that:

  1. Runs lineageOS 20, thanks to UL and someone on xda
  2. Runs kernel 6.3 with postmarketOS, thanks to a whole bunch of people working on the kernel
Rand0mA ,

I had an old iPod nano that was hacked with a light Linux distro. Could even run doom on it… It ran, but wasn’t practical to play it.

marquisalex ,

Rockbox, by any chance? I have fond memories of playing doom with that scroll wheel…

Rand0mA ,

Pretty sure it was just called iPod Linux.

Just looked… looks like rockbox is the successor. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPodLinux

GuyNoIRQ , (edited )
@GuyNoIRQ@infosec.pub avatar

We had a fancy coffee machine at an old job that ran Linux. If I remember correctly it was a top of line cafection or zulay machine. One of the ones with a touch screen. Just booted off an SD card as well iirc so probably would have been pretty easy to hack on.

I still find it weird that managed switches run Linux as I generally would think that at those data rates they’d need something closer to the metal but with the magic of HW offloading that’s been a thing in enterprise for a while and OpenWRT even supports some consumer grade ones now.

Some (probably most) ebook readers like the Kindle.

Many newer cars.

TI NSpire calculators.

A slow cooker. linux.com/…/crock-pot-slow-cooker-wi-fi-smarts-ha…

A cable modem. Specifically the Motorola SB6120 can. Maybe others too.

WiFi enabled SD cards. elinux.org/Wifi_SD

A dead badger. strangehorizons.com/…/installing-linux-on-a-dead-…

EDIT: Totally forgot about these 2 ham radios. You can run and access Linux on both of these. One is by design as its running on a Pi, the other via mod by R1CBU booting the OS from an SD card.

sBitx v2: www.hfsignals.com/index.php/sbitx-v2/

Xiegu x6100: r1cbu.ru/index.php/home/radio-software/x6100

Thade780 ,

A dead badger.

🤣

Natanael ,

managed switches run Linux as I generally would think that at those data rates they’d need something closer to the metal

They might be running userspace networking

www.linuxjournal.com/…/userspace-networking-dpdk

Also hard drives. No, not like that.

spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1

GuyNoIRQ ,
@GuyNoIRQ@infosec.pub avatar

It doesn’t have as much to do with where the network stack is running, but that they’re leveraging hardware offloading. Their CPUs generally aren’t powerfull enough to switch packets at gigabit speeds let alone on many interfaces at gigabit or multi-gig speeds. Its by leveraging ASICs and maybe even some using FPGAs for hardware offload that they can switch packets at line rate. I understand how they do it, I still just find it kind of weird and cool.

I didn’t list HDDs as someone else had mentioned that already. I was just listing a few devices that weren’t mentioned in other comments yet.

Natanael ,

Both really, you can’t fully offload to hardware if your kernel still requires an interrupt to pass the payload. That hardware most likely has userspace drivers.

GuyNoIRQ ,
@GuyNoIRQ@infosec.pub avatar

Oh yeah, didn’t even think about that. Isn’t using userspace network pretty common these days anyway?

insomniac ,
@insomniac@sh.itjust.works avatar

Software defined radios are kinda a stretch. The radio hardware isn’t running Linux. There’s a receiver that converts the signal to digital and then a Linux computer processes the signal. Basically the exact same thing as my computer having a radio receiver plugged in to it but packaged up as a standalone thing. If that counts, my keyboard runs Linux.

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