January 5, 2008
nas-central.org today launched their new portal. Previously nas-central was a union of several Buffalo device specific hacking communities, but as of today the nas-central team are creating dedicated spaces for most of the major manufacturers of embedded Linux based devices, including:
If you own an embedded Linux based NAS by one of these manufacturers you can help the effort by clicking one of the links above and documenting your device. Also the nas-central team are happy to add support for new manufacturers, hit the nas-central forum with your requests!
January 2, 2008
foonas.org is currently conducting a donation drive to obtain new development hardware. The network used for developing and testing foonas has run out of ethernet ports, and we are seeking to alleviate that problem temporarily and support a new NAS device at the same time by purchasing some Thecus N1200s, a NAS device with a built in switch.
Hit the foonas donations page to donate by paypal, thanks for helping foonas!
January 1, 2008
The foonas team are proud to announce the first stable release of foonas-em (and indeed the first official release from foonas.org) for PowerPC based Linkstation and Kurobox NAS devices. The foonas-em firmware for these platforms replaces existing vendor and third party firmwares and includes the following features no other in flash firmware provides:
- Linux 2.6.23.12 in flash
- XFS support and well as ext2 and ext3
- Busybox 1.8.2 with a reasonable set of commands
- vsftpd
- Support for editing u-boot configuration from Linux
- Browser based installation of supported OS (currently Gentoo and foonas)
More information on foonas-em can be found via the main foonas portal. Support for other devices is in progress, updates for these will appear as soon as various platform specific issues have been worked out. We hope you enjoy the improvements in this new firmware. Hit the comments and let us know what you think and happy new year from foonas!
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