http://blog.foonas.org network attached storage, embedded development, news, ramblings Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:50:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.foonas.org/2008/06/29/foobox-donation-drive/ 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 ... http://blog.foonas.org/2008/06/28/donation-drive-complete/ 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 ... http://blog.foonas.org/2008/06/27/foonasorg-general-update/ foonas-em 0.1.0-r2 has been released bringing many new features and support for various new platforms. With this move comes a migration from glibc to uclibc to free up space for new features which include JFS, USB storage, Busybox 1.10.1, partial German and Spanish localisations and VFAT support for all platforms.We are pleased ... http://blog.foonas.org/2008/05/05/foonas-em-010-r2/ 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: Buffalo D-Link Iomega Lacie Linksys Maxtor Synology QNAP Thecus ZyxelIf you own an embedded Linux based NAS by one of ... http://blog.foonas.org/2008/01/05/nas-central-expansion/ 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 ... http://blog.foonas.org/2008/01/02/donation-drive-q1-2008/ 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 ... http://blog.foonas.org/2008/01/01/foonas-em-released/ Today we are able to confirm that we are commencing work on a dedicated iSCSI target distribution called foonas-iscsi. This will be similar to foonas-em in size and reside in firmware on supported devices. Currently it is in very early stages of development, more information will be made available as ... http://blog.foonas.org/2007/12/01/foonas-iscsi-in-2008/ QNAP has kindly offered to provide two TurboStation TS-109 boards for the foonas developers. As a very few clued-in people might know, QNAP's excellent PowerPC-based TurboStation TS-101 was the NAS-device that started foonas development. And now they're doing it again. The TS-109 looks like another well-designed device, and they're sending ... http://blog.foonas.org/2007/11/22/qnap-provides-ts-109-boards-for-developers/ Debuting in Japan in mid December is the new HDL-GS line of NAS devices from I-O Data. Among its many features are GBit ethernet, disk sizes ranging from 250 GB to 1 TB, an iTunes music server, DNLA compliant media streamer and OS X client as well as Windows.Another worthy feature of note is its ability ... http://blog.foonas.org/2007/11/22/i-o-data-to-launch-hdl-gs-nas-range-soon/