never going to stop thinking about MSI's own entry into the "instant-on Linux" category: a flash drive that plugged straight into a USB header, which they called Winki
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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
God, that's low effort. Yeah, just make a USB stick with motherboard headers and stick that motherfucker in there, whatever, good job, take the afternoon off
You see, it's a key, that runs our own proprietary linux Windows…
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Well I already printed all of the stickers and marketing materials, so it's going to stay Winki.
supermicro makes something similar called a "SATA DOM", it plugs right in to the sata port on a motherboard for basically exactly the same purpose -- just get a bare-bones linux system up so it can do the real work of being a web server or whatever (and you don't have random system i/o hitting your "production workload" disks)
