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Team foonas has always been a little disappointed with the higher end consumer NAS devices. Costing as much as a laptop or a full desktop system these devices are rarely able to offer little more than basic storage capabilities at a rather significant price out the box. We are looking to develop a community supported open platform comparable in price but superior in features in our new experiment, the foobox project!

We seek funding to purchase the hardware for evaluation and development of the foobox platform, which will also help us with the first version of foonas for the x86 architecture in our Q3 donation drive. Visit the foonas donations page to offer your support!

Thanks to a generous donation by Chris Wilson aka gcj we were able to purchase a second Thecus N1200 for Byron Bradley known for his fine work on the Linux kernel for Orion based devices. Thanks again to Chris who has not only helped us finish the first foonas.org donation drive but is now also helping out with Thecus N2100 support and foonas-iscsi!

News on the next donation drive will appear in the near future, watch this space!

Thanks to your kind donations team foonas has taken delivery of a Thecus N1200 - this would not have been possible without your support, so thanks again! We are still collecting donations for the Q1 donation drive to get a device for foonas developer Byron Bradley, so if you want to help foonas in a non technical manner hit up the donations page and pop us a few bucks!

Currently team foonas is focusing on finishing off the localisation in foonas-em and full on foonas-iscsi development. News about new releases and development will follow soon! Recently foonas.org got a small mention in an article at the embedded Linux news site Linux Devices thanks to Markus from nas-central.org, champion of the GPL who also got slashdotted recently in his mission to acquire sources for the Hammer MyShare NAS. You can follow his quest on the nas-central.org blog!