You probably haven’t heard of the Killer NIC and there’s probably even less of a chance that you’ve heard it runs Linux. Bigfoot claims that their NIC reduces ping times, and produces a better gaiming experience by off-loading networking to the card. In addition to its job as a NIC the card can also run small linux applications off 64 MB of on-card RAM. Imagine Bit-torrent and firewall applications running under a real Linux environment. Although at this point you can pick-up a descent dual-core processor for $300.
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