Re: [SLUG] NSLU2 Stories
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:22:27PM +1000, Simon Males wrote: It's been brought to my attention that the Linksys NSLU2 runs Linux and that there are projects in existence creating custom firmware. It also runs L4 quite nicley; if you're looking for a challenge you could shadow the advanced operating systems course from UNSW [1] or play with some of the ERTOS stuff [2]. You'll want a serial header which is fun to hardware hack, but careful you don't fry it if you don't have JTAG equipment; I speak from experience :(. [1] http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9242/06/ [2] http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au/ -i -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] NSLU2 Stories
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:22, Simon Males wrote: Hello Sluggers It's been brought to my attention that the Linksys NSLU2 runs Linux and that there are projects in existence creating custom firmware. Much like the WRT54G. You can get Debian installed on the NSLU2 too (http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/) I am contemplating in buying one, but would like to hear if any sluggers have any success stories and in there own experiments. I haven't found a real need for it yet. I have read about people who have installed Music Player Daemon on it to make it a little music player device. Regards Joseph -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] NSLU2 Stories
On Monday 30 October 2006 10:04, Joseph Goncalves wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:22, Simon Males wrote: Hello Sluggers It's been brought to my attention that the Linksys NSLU2 runs Linux and that there are projects in existence creating custom firmware. Much like the WRT54G. You can get Debian installed on the NSLU2 too (http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/) I am contemplating in buying one, but would like to hear if any sluggers have any success stories and in there own experiments. I haven't found a real need for it yet. I have read about people who have installed Music Player Daemon on it to make it a little music player device. I have a crazy idea and would like to gage some expert opinion. How about making using number of NSLU2 devices as a distributed file system server using the Coda or AFS distributed file systems? I'm wondering how reliable and fast this would be compared to a centralised computer with a software based raid array or equivalent (with LVM2). I would anticipate that Coda or AFS would take care of the replication and load balancing across the NSLU2 based nodes and would anticipate that over a 100M ethernet that say 4 or 5 devices would perform quite nicely and reliably, but am open to see what other people would say about this because I have no experience with AFS or Coda. What benchmarks should I use to test this out? Regards Joseph -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] NSLU2 Stories
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 16:22 +1000, Simon Males wrote: Hello Sluggers It's been brought to my attention that the Linksys NSLU2 runs Linux and that there are projects in existence creating custom firmware. Much like the WRT54G. I am contemplating in buying one, but would like to hear if any sluggers have any success stories and in there own experiments. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll point you at an interview I did with Michael Still who did a talk about the NSLU2 at the recent AUUG conf: http://www.localfoss.org/node/307 And also at: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ Enjoy -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Open Source On The Air A LocalFOSS Production http://www.localfoss.org irc: #localfoss on irc.freenode.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
