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ender · 11-23-2004, 01:48 PM

The NSLU2 is a product put out by Linksys that was originally intended to be a network filesystem for windows systems. The idea is that you plug in an external USB harddrive and it shares it on the network as a windows share. One curious fellow out there, however, realized that it ran Linux on it, and there the hacking began. Today they have their own custom firmware and 2.6.9 kernel that almost turns it into an $80 Strong-ARM development system. The soekris cost around $150-$300 by comparison.

Hope this helps!

-Ted

11-23-2004, 01:48 PM	#8 (permalink)
ender Code Monkey Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 75	The NSLU2 is a product put out by Linksys that was originally intended to be a network filesystem for windows systems. The idea is that you plug in an external USB harddrive and it shares it on the network as a windows share. One curious fellow out there, however, realized that it ran Linux on it, and there the hacking began. Today they have their own custom firmware and 2.6.9 kernel that almost turns it into an $80 Strong-ARM development system. The soekris cost around $150-$300 by comparison. Hope this helps! -Ted __________________ while(1) fork();