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pTweety - 2 Slugs, one with latest Unslung beta and a devel system

My prod slug acts as a mailserver running

  • fetchmail
  • postfix
  • cyrus-imapd

Corneliu Doban - 1 Slug, Unslung 3.18 160GB HD

  • Apache/PHP/Gallery for family photos
  • DynDNS update
  • Backup jobs
  • Asterisk - as home PBX, connected to:
    • Free World Dialup
    • PSTN using a Sipura SPA-3000 ATA/Gateway
    • NTP timeserver
    • DynDNS update
    • POP3/SMTP proxy
    • HTTP(S) proxy tinyproxy
    • MP3 stream proxy
    • IRC proxy miau
    • Dropbear ssh access
    • Logging of "everything" with syslog
    • DNS Server dnsmasq
    • thttpd for a tiny webpage
    • no extra HDD/flash attached. Everything on 6MB internal flash
    • "intrusion detection" with portsentry
    • tcpdump for curisosity
  • Second Slug
    • development system for now

Øyvind Repvik - 2 Slugs; OpenSlug; 120GB Seagate External

Slug #1, running OpenSlug 2.5-beta:

  • Running Samba as PDC
  • Being my fileserver (Samba and ProFTPD)
  • Keeping my time updated with openntp
  • Updating my DynIP DNS address
  • Serving my http-stuff with thttpd.
  • Automatic torrent-downloader
  • Native development slug
  • Streaming audio and video to my XBox with ccxstream

Slug #2, running OpenSlug unstable:

  • Testing slug.
  • Native development slug

Ross - 1 Slug; 3.18 Beta; 300GB Seagate External

  • iTunes server
  • File Server
  • FTP Server
  • Web Server

THE GOOD: Interesting to note that the Seagate External USB2/Firewire A drive I have automatically goes into a sleep mode when not in use after a short period of time.

THE BAD: However, one time I did need to access the iTunes server in order to reset the drive, e.g. wake the drive.

THE UGLY: Telnet/FTP/Web Access were all nonresponsive until I accessed the iTunes server and reset the drive.

Eddy Schouten - Two slugs, running on 3.18Beta

  • Slug 1
    • Speedmod running now on 266Mhz (default = 133Mhz)
    • two 200GB Maxtor HDD (mirror)
    • storage for 4 PCs
    • storage for 2 Dreambox 7000s satellite receivers (running Linux too)
    • running mt-daapd (iTunes Server) for easy listening (in the house)
    • running my Internet pages on second thttpd
    • running OpenSSH for secure login
  • Slug 2
    • Speedmod running now on 266Mhz (default = 133Mhhz)
    • 512MB USB memory stick as DISK1
    • smb.mount from slug 1
    • GCC compiler for native development
    • OpenSSH for secure login
    • Cups USB printing to my Epson AcuLaser C1100
    • and more to come...

Louis - One slug, running Unslung 3.18 Beta with a 160GB WD HDD

  • Running a web server (thttpd)
  • Media (audio/video/pics) streaming to my KiSS network enabled DVD player (using a derived version of dp500serv)
  • NEAR FUTURE: Running a NZB (usenet) parser (almost ready)
  • Place to put Ghost Images of both my PCs running

Did have a HD crash (Maxtor), still recovering from the lost of data.

Philip Johnson - One slug, running Unslung 3.18 Beta with a 200GB Maxtor HDD

My superduper slug does all the dirty work.

  • It backs up all my data files
  • It backs up all my music (a lot) and streams it everywhere possible using mt-daapd
  • Runs multiple websites using thttpd and multihoming
  • Runs Squid to cache and proxy all my traffic and to make things nice and speedy. This is also double useful as my WAG54G is useless with its wireless net dropouts...
  • Runs dropbear (SSH Server)
  • Using dropbear supplies me with my load statistics wherever I am (using nload)
  • vsFTPd runs 24/7

and I guess thats pretty much it so far :p It copes really well.

Jon

Finally my NSLU2 has been unslung!
Web server, OpenSSH, Perl/CGI and so on ...
Now I'm trying to figure out how to get apache working.

Ben Humphry - 1 slug (v3.17b) w/Maxtor 200GB HD

My Slug is doing quite a lot now...

  • It is running CCXStream and Twonkyvision to serve media to my Xbox and Netgear MP101 respectively.
  • It is also providing anonymous proxy services via stunnel and the cotse.net service.
  • I have vsFTPd running, so I can access my files remotely. - Not any more - for security, this is now replaced with OpenSSH/SCP.
  • Finally, it is running a website (with PHP and Perl/CGI) - the website consists of a messageboard and media jukebox so my family and I can access my media files anywhere on the road.

It copes very well.

I love this thing! In fact, I'm just about ready to buy another one, as I'm not sure I'll be able to squeeze very much more out of this one. My only decision is whether to get another Slug or just another HD for now - my 200GB is almost full.

Ben, can you give us a hint how you installed PHP on the NSLU2 (appWeb does not find php4libs)? (Josef Noll)

Rene van den Assem (rvdassem@hccnet.nl)

I'm using my slug as a mediaserver. I'm running mt-daapd and Twonkyvison mediaserver v2.4 on it, serving MP3s to iTunes clients on PC's and serving all sorts of content to my Streamium 300 box.

Additionally, I use it to backup files from my PC's and I intend to use it as a simple web and mailserver in the future.

Great development, lots of functionality without burdening my PC. Even better, it actually does a better job streaming video than my overburdened PC.

Rene

Andreas - slug with attached 120G HD

Only started some days ago with this device but already love it :)

I use it as file- / mail- server for my small home network with only 4 users

Postfix/fetchmail/bincimap

works really great

PS: changed bincimap to dovecot, bincimap did not work properly

Sam - One slug with a 200GB drive earning its keep:

  1. Cheap, quiet, low-power (slug processor burns no more than 1.5W, while a typical PC sucks between 60W and 80W) web server in my kitchen keeping the polkadot ninja online all the time.
  2. qmail server, thanks to some help from Mike Brown.
  3. Backing up a whole lot of music and serving it up around the house.

Michael E Brown - (~10/2004) I have two slugs. One for my website and one for development.

Home of some unslung logos

Box 1 runs my Byte Red website 24x7, where I'm attempting to sell my art. Has a 2.5 inch 20GB Toshiba drive attached. Totally quiet, and a trickle of electricity. I'm using Thttpd 2.25b from ACME Laboratories for my webserver, Webalizer for my website usage statistics, and qmail for my mailserver.
Box 2 contains a fairly complete GNU development environment. Just overclocked. Has a 2.5 inch 40GB Toshiba drive attached. Occasionally attach another 40GB USB drive for backup.

Gerald Clark - I have 2 slugs.

  1. DHCP and DNS server. Running dnsmasq under Unslung V3.2 with a jffs2 root file system. This replaces an old Pentium tower.
  2. Development and experimentation.

Sheldon Stokes - I have one slug and a LaCie 250 Gb drive

I use mine for:

  1. Windows backup of certain directories (manual at this point)
  2. OS X desktop complete backups via NFS mount and the psync perl script (before you get excited, the perl script is on the mac side)
  3. Repository of my entire MP3 collection (still ripping).
  4. I am sharing my collection (above) via mt-daapd to my Mac upstairs so I can listen to my collection as I rip.
  5. An always there go-between for frequently used files on my various computers.

Future ideas:

  1. Common browser bookmark repository.
  2. Webcam for my dogs
  3. X10 thingy
  4. Paperweight when I hose the firmware
  5. Main controller for a mobile robot

Doug Knabe - I have one slug (v3.17) and two 250GB Hitachi Disks

I use mine for:

  1. Storage for 150 GBytes of Audio wav files, with automated backup.
  2. Source for audio files for my Turtle Beach Audiotron music player
  3. Improving Linux skills
  4. Dual access to data files from both my Linux and W2K machines via unfs3

Matt McNeill - My set up is as follows:

  1. Slug v3.17
  2. 1 Maxtor 250 (FAT32 Formatted more that half full)
  3. 1 20Gb 2.5in laptop HDD in a HotDrive USB powered caddy
  4. connected to a NETGEAR FM114P wireless router
  5. 1 HotHub USB Hub
  6. 1 Belkin Multipurpose USB2 caddy which is great for digging about in old HDDs.

I'm currently using this for:

  1. Exploring Linux - I have managed to get the native toolchain up and running and evel compiled mysql, php and some other biggies. Took a day to compile mysql though. I've now got debian running on a MS Virtual PC to do cross compiles which is much quicker.
  2. Disk 1 is 20Gb 2.5in Laptop drive and is powered by the SLUG.
  3. Sharing out my Maxtor Drive on Disk 2 (Note: because of the non-spindown "feature" I only connect this on an ad-hoc basis and therefore it loses a lot of its advantage)
  4. Remote Access via OpenSSH and SCP/SFTP (very cool, especially with WinSCP and Putty)
  5. Media server to the Phillips MCW770 with Twonkyvision 2.8 - internet radio now works without any problems.
  6. IRC over remote shell. I have managed to get OpenSSH tunneling to work and connect my IRC client to the miau IRC proxy which logs the channel conversations for me and maintains my connections. Really good solution now, especially with BitchX text based IRC client I now have comprehensive cover.
  7. Remote tunneling proxy (using vtun?) Currently using OpenSSH tunnels with Putty to manage this. It will be interesting to find out more about vtun when info becomes available.

My network setup can be seen here

What I want to use it for in the future:

  1. Mail server (I'm particularly interested in the work of Joule on this) - I understand there are now many options for this, but not got round to playing with it yet.
  2. USB Samba Print server (This will require replacement of the Linksys Kernel) - I understand this is possible now, but not got round to getting it working.
  3. Use it with a USB hub to connect more than 2 HDDs - this is a limitation of Unslung, so might have to wait for openslug to mature a bit.

VoodooZ (Stephane Gauthier)

I'm currently helping out with the OpenSlug development so we can have a plain linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel to run on it.

I'm using my slug as a cheap development board for my newest mobile robot to compete in the Trinity College Firefighting home robot contest in Hartford.

I will/plan to equip the robot with:

  • A cheap bluetooth USB adapter to remotely monitor/control it via a web interface and/or ssh in.
  • 256MB USB flash disk for program storage to minimize power consumption and space on the robot.
  • A cheap USB camera to give the robot vision! The possibilities are endless!

For more details on my projects: http://robotics.no-ip.org

peteru

My NSLU2 was purchased with a very clear objective in mind - turn it into a USB <---> Ethernet adaptor for my PVR. It is currently running V2.3R25-uNSLUng-able-2.8-alpha connected to a Topfield TF5000PVRt with a custom application used to communicate with the Toppy.

The goal is to turn this setup into a custom firmware image that inexperienced users can flash and convert a stock standard Linksys product into a home network gateway for their Topfield PVR.

Bill Bradford

Hooked to a 120G Western Digital HD in a generic CompUSA USB2.0 enclosure. Got Unslung installed tonight, and am using the slug as a fileserver for my Macs (iMac G5, iBook G4) and my wife's Windows box, as well as an iTunes server for the Macs.

Conzi@Work

I am running the NSLU2 as TwonkyVision Musicserver with 160GB Hitachi Drive in a noname case... I splitted the drive in four partitions: 

   0.25GB ext3  /data
   0.25GB ext3  /conf
   0.5GB  swap  /swap
   159GB FAT32  /vfat

so that i can use the drive still on my Windows PC ....

...and it works great!

Don't forget to visit the "German NSLU2 User Group": http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-german/

Added: Flashed uNSLUng-3.17-beta some days ago and it seems to work great :-)

Bob(tm)

- With a Samsung 160GB 7.2KRPM drive in a Sweex 3.5" enclosure.

This is a really cool thing. The main attraction of this box is being something that can be up 24:7 and make as little noise as possible. My own uses are:

1: PRESENT: Music and video storage for my XBox. Finally the XBox HDD can get some rest and make the living room less noisy. This is the reason I bought the slug in the first place and I've been using it this way for more than a month.

2: PRESENT: FTP server. As soon as I can build Alpha 3 on my PC there will a pretty nice server too in VSFTPD.

3: PRESENT: Backup unit (manual) for my own documents (mostly LaTeX). Hope to be able to integrate this with some type of revision control on the slug side, but I will not fight for it.

4: PRESENT/FUTURE: Torrent-client - some of these torrents take forever - what is better than letting them run on one of these devices (I am a bit in doubt about the memory use, but I will find out). LibBT is here, but no web-frontend pending the port of Python.

5: FUTURE: Closed-circuit P2P (Waste) so I can access all my computers' files (including the slug) regardless of location. I'm doubtful that Waste can be fitted but I'll give it a go.

6: PRESENT: A place to log the output from my Linksys WRT54GS and the SpeedTouch 510 (the latter is still to be hooked up).

When it comes to the downsides mentioned by a fellow user above: speed is slow (about 3MB/s) and this seems to be a USB issue on the SLUG (network is not the main issue as speed is slow locally). Some blame this on pathetic CPU power, but come, come - there is more balls in the slug than that. I would guess a bad USB implementation or a faulty driver. Maybe we will never know.

The spin down issue will hopefully be addressed soon (Samsung does not have support for auto spin down), since this is not a pure slug problem but a general thing with USB drives.

I must say that I am so impressed all the work that has been, and is being done on this project! I hope to be able to contribute with things related to (4) and (5).

ov2k

I've got mine setup with a second instance of thttpd serving webpages to the public, ssh and sftp for terminal, tunneling, and file transfer purposes. I've tunneled SMB over SSH before, and I've configured squid to allow secure wireless browsing on unsecured access points by tunneling into the slug via ssh and passing the proxy through the tunnel to squid. I use the SMB shares for simple backup from computers on the network, and I've used the slug as a repository for partition images of the system partitions of systems on my network.

I'm running a Fujitsu 80GB drive in a Bytecc enclosure.

Seb

I´m using mine as a mediaserver for my DVD player Transgear DVX-500E http://www.mpeg-playcenter.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2833#21387

John

One NSLU with Unslung 2.12 [just upgraded to 3.16] installed. 1 - 200 GB Maxtor HD in a Bytecc ME-320X enclosure. I have installed TwonkyVision Media Server, and using it to stream to an SMC EZStream SMCWAA-B, which is hooked up to a Russound A-Bus (whole house) audio system. My MP3 collection is sitting on the drive, and I can stream that as well as Shoutcast stations throughout the whole house.

ilafe

I am using it as an small webserver and some PHP programing. Just got this wiki up and running: http://wmu9k.homeunix.org/ with WikiRootry a small PHP wiki.

Dave

What a fantastic piece of kit. In the couple of days I've had it, the Slug has effectively consigned my power hungry, noisy behemoth of a desktop to a life in the off position. Using it with a 250GB OneTouch, with an extra 120GB in the post for the following:

- as an SSH server - useful for accessing the outside world through work's firewall; - as an ftp server; - as an iTunes server; - as a media library for my Xbox - beats turning on the Xbox only to realise the desktop server wasn't running.

Finally, to the poster above who was looking for a text based IRC client: this was an aim of mine as well. Turns out to be easier than I thought. Just install the excellent Perl port and use a simple Perl client (for example: http://www.guru-group.fi/~too/sw/releases/irc.perl)

Vasile

One slug running OpenDebian? BE. 3x250GB Hitachi drives, in Silverdrive (no-name) enclosures using ALi chipset.

  • External vsftpd server through home firewall.
  • NTP server for the home network.
  • NFS client to satellite receiver (Dreambox 7000) -> I can see all my recorded movies :-)... serving via Samba the same and MP3s for play across the house.
  • also serves my DIVX collection :-)
  • storage server for family pictures (including automated daily rsync between 2 disks)

great work team, thanks a lot for making this possible!!!

Rene_Robinson

I just got it Unslung (3.17Beta) and put up SSH. I will use my slug to replace a Linux server. It will offer webpages, gateway access via SSH into my LAN, and I want to try out Subversion on it. Since I run a Linux/Windows network, I will put up nfs also.

Maybe I can finally get my wife to put all the pictures on the server now.

If I get the feel of this system, I'll try to see if I can contribute back. I see the need for better documentation, maybe enhance the FAQ section? We will see.

The work so far has been great, I look forward to what this may become.

Jim

I just got mine Unslung and added mt-daapd to serve music to a Roku Soundbridge. Now to get it to backup my data like Sheldon Stokes did.

Nick

I've Unslung my box with V 3.16 and a 80 Gb IDE HD enclosure.

I'm using it as a iTunes server with a Roku Soundbridge network player. It's a totally killing combination :-)

One more thing : when you program the Unslung firmware from Linksys original one, re-partition and format your main disk after the firmware upgrade, so that you have the uNSLUng root password, instead of the Linksys one. A format only is not enough, as it only formats the data partition and the password is on another partition ...

[Usurper. What does this mean? Is it documented anywhere? If not... why/why not?]

SteveH

Unslung with 3.17 and running a Hitachi 80GB drive in an Icy Box enclosure.

Currently using with mt_daapd to serve mp3s to my Roku Soundbridge. (Do you spot a pattern?)

Planning to investigate serving web-pages and opening up the ssh port for tunnelling some time soon.

GarthS

Unslung with v3.16, 200GB WD attached.

NSLU is plugged into D-Link DWL-810+ wireless bridge.

TwonkyVision media server (http://www.twonkyvision.de/) streams mp3s to a Linksys WMLS11B...

Drive is FAT32 formatted and NSLU is also sharing this on a windows network.

All wireless...

MarioTeetzen

Device a) Unslung with v3.17, 40GB

Device b) Unslung with v3.17, 2 x 120GB

Device a) is used only for development. Installed the crosstool-native just a few hours ago. leafnode (a small nntp-server) ist already up and running ;-)

Device b) is a serving the home-fileserver for mp3 and other data. Will be also a nntp-server after testing on a).

SteveB

Firstly a big thank to all who have contributed to make Unslung, it's made a great piece of kit into an absolutely fantastic one.

Unslung with v3.17, 40GB Laptop HD attached - completely silent

NSLU is plugged into Netgear DG824M Router.

TwonkyVision music server on the slug streams mp3s or internet radio to a Netgear MP101.

Drive is FAT32 formatted and NSLU is also sharing this across the network.

sk8joker

Have one slug.

  • USB1 with 250G LaCie HD hanging off it.
  • USB2 with USB Soundcard hanging off (Griffin iMic in my case, also tried others).

Patched the unslung-able-kernel to allow for USB Audio. Ported alsa-drivers to OpenEmbedded and built for unslung-able-kernel. Ported a set of audio utilities, accumulating into the port of MPD (http://www.musicpd.org). My slug is playing music to my stereo system now, feeding of the MP3s on the disk. It also feeds in Internet Radio stations. To control it I use a webbrowser through a php front and a client on my iPAQ.

I am currently wrapping up all of the above to feed back into OpenEmbedded and the unslung cvs so this can become available to you all in packages. I will write a Howto about this some time later.

This entry was added in February - any update on that Howto? (nag, nag, nag) - Hannes

peterroubos

Have one slug and one in backorder

  • USB1 200GB Maxtor with noname casing

Running Gallery on Apache/PHP (http://213.211.168.243) Running DP500Serv, a streaming MediaServer for the KiSS networked DVD/DivX players. And also use it to record Satelite TV with my Dreambox.

aarony

Have one slug hooked up to a Western Digital 180GB in a Vantec NexStar casing.

  1. Running mt-daapd for servering music to iTunes
  2. Running appWeb to experiment with for webdevelopment
  3. Running OpenSSH to securely logon to the slug for maintenance
  4. Running CCXStream, but haven't used it to server content to XBox Media Player.

Overall, a very happy user!

jstueve

http://misplacedkeys.net (blog - not on slug)

Have one slug hooked up to a Maxtor OneTouch 200GB, and a USB SD/Key reader

running:

  1. OpenDebianSlug?

with OpenSSH, vncserver, Samba (as PDC), LAMP, popularity-contest

Wim

  • 2 Slug; 3.18 Beta; 200GB External
  • NFS, SMB server
  • Jinzora Server

I bought my NSLU2 to share a disk for my Linux and windows boxes. I found your distro and installed Unslung. Since I am a beta tester for Jinzora jukebox software I did install it on PHP Apache. Supprise it works and now im using it to play all my music with the slim.php from Jinzora, very nice it streams to a flash player on my computers. Thank you guys.

Jinzora

IgorM

  • 1 slug: 3.18 beta with 1GB flash
  • OpenSSH
  • thttpd

Bought one NSLU2 for fun and also to show my son how tiny a computer could be. Reflashing, unslinging and getting familiar with the beast took one evening. Next day I added SSH to access the slug from work. Got SSH working next day and also thttpd (2nd copy, after moving Linksys's 'thttpd' to another port) serving my Website from 1GB flash. Surprized how easy it all was as I had not touched any Unixes for about 10 years. A bit disappointed with the speed - NT4 with Pentium 200MHz and 24MB RAM is noticeably quicker on the local subnet but from the Internet there is no visible difference. It was all good fun and I am expecting to get a lot more - adding mail server, NTP and streaming videos through internal LAN. Maybe wiki. Will add also GNU compiler as I am sure I'd want to write something custom built.

Seymour (boogers@snot.net) - 2 Slug, Unslung 5.5

1st slug

1 1GB Sony USB 2.0 USB stick. 1 300GB Western Digital - external USB 2.0 case.

  • Dropbear
  • MRTG
    built thanks to a friendly post and friendly co-worker
  • Perl
  • syslogd
    accepts and archives daily WRTG54 access and system info with Talisman source running
  • Logging files into berkely db file. However I will be changing that to MySQL so I can do quick and dirty TOP, SELECT FROM, etc commands and not write dirty Perl.
  • thttpd cp mythttpd for mrtg.
  • thttpd cp thttpd-x for music. running homegrown perl script for viewing and downloading music.

2nd slug 2 60GB Western Digital - external USB 2.0 case.

  • stores personal data
  • runs backup from drive 1 to drive 2 for personal data.

This is replacing a Win2K3 (dual proc) box with 6 60GB drives. This is to save power and environment. Haven't touched Linux|unix in several years and I honestly have to say I love Microsoft OS. However this has been something that has change a few thoughts. Just a great device considering the $$, size and power.

HannesReich

Running an old OpenSlug build with

  • Laptop HD (no external power supply, quiet) in Trekstor case.
  • SSH server for remote access.
  • hourly/daily backups of multiple UNIX boxes via rsnapshot.
  • Serial port added with a good old serial terminal attached for reading mail via SSH and watching kernel panics.

Plans...

  • MPD
  • Backups of Windows boxes with rsnapshot

Greg Frye 2 slugs 

 Unslung 6.8; 1 160GB Seagate drive
  • backup space for 3 Windows pc's
  • Repository of my entire MP3? collection (iTunes ripped)
  • iTunes server via mt-daapd to Windows and Mac
  • Twonkyvision to serve media to my Netgear MP101?
  • go-between for files on various computers 
 Unslung 6.8; 1 250GB Maxtor OneTouch? drive
  • alternate backup space for 3 Windows pc's
  • Asterisk PBX

DougLourey V2.3R29-uNSLUng-5.5 beta

  • 5 NSLU2 File servers
  • 1 NSLU2 Music server
  • ME-740U2 USB HDD Enclosure w/200gig Seagate and Western Digital drives (12 installed)
    • FTP - VSFTPD - complete : )
    • Web - ThttpdWebserver - complete : )
      http://lourey.com Click on Photo Albums link
    • OverClock - complete : )
    • Dropbear - for secure Telnet - complete : )
    • Email Server - not started yet

Bert Mengerink

2 slugs (one still original with 250GB MaxStor, other with V2.3R29-uNSLUng-5.5 beta and two 1 GB flash drives)

Large one to be used for file-server, iTunes server Double flash to be used as web-server with Mambo Open Source Content Management System Later more functionality, like Forums, video-server, etc.

PPADAR

  • 1 slug V2.3R29-uNSSLUng-5.5 beta, 20GB 2.5" Hitachi drive on a 2.5" NexStar Aluminum case
  • 1 Twonky music server
  • 1 thttpd Webserver

Both runs great!

drone

  • Im hooked on the NSLU2, I have 2 already.
  • It used to be SLUK running unslung (5.5) serving a 250G and 300G USB disk thru samba and mt-daapd with openssh, rsync, and rsnapshot it did what I wanted the easy way. Then there was a openslug 2.5 binary, running from 128MB flash (64MB / and 64MB swap), for testing and poking around.
  • Now its all debonaras.org all the way for my NSLU2! Since Im a debian fan all the way. Still sticking with one for stable serving of files/music and one for the testing.

I have a tiny 2 port USB hub hooked up sometimes that contain a bluetooth dongle, a gps, a USB wifi or an external disk (noname cheap cabinet). I may be getting another slug pretty soon...

Stephan Hughson

Only 1 slug for now. Running vsftpd, openssh and that's it for now. Might turn into a USB printer and bittorrent server soon. Thanks.

  • update - 08/06/07 **

Now my slug has been unlocked to run at full speed, is running Debian and is currently in use as a print server only.

Frankincell

1 Slug Running MySQL, PHP-Apache, Dropbear and Dokuwiki. This thing rocks.

John Baker

Slug running

  • V2.3R29-uNSLUng-5.5-beta
  • Overclocked to 266MHz
  • 1GB flash disk

thttpd, php and net-snmp installed

My goal is to turn the Slug into a network monitoring device using php code that I have written and by using MRTG.

Just waiting for PHP to be compiled with Sockets and SNMP.

Nick Pye - nick dot pye at gmail.com

Unslung 5.5 Beta / ext Tsunami 30gb laptop usb drive

  • Wordpress 1.5
  • qdig
  • ntp
  • dns
  • rrdtool / rrdmonitor
  • CGI/proxy
  • lilina
  • ssh

de-clocked 266mhz

Luke Pickering. luke [is at] ext [addadot] canterbury [addanother] ac [lastdot] nz

Hiya, I run a small consulting company which does quite a bit of linux work. The NSLU2 looked like it had quite a bit of potential and so I've been using it for some experimental work lately.

It has proved to be reliable, with good uptime, and the instructions to run Unslung 5.5 were clear so I installed that early on.

Since then I've installed Apache/PHP, MySQL, Webalizer, whois, IMAP (Uwash), dropbear and a number of other utilities to see how it would go as a mini-server for some of my smaller clients. Many thanks to those that have developed and packaged these for the NSLU2 - they installed and operated with a minimum of fuss (unlike some other distributions!). My only problem is that an upgrade of busybox had a conflict with something else I installed so it never happened.

Anyway it's certainly not fast, so I'm not sure how it would work in real practice but for mail, backup, and other lesser tasks I think there is certainly potential here for this. Perhaps if I was to overclock then the speed would improve enough to make it more useful in some situations.

Of interest to others perhaps is that I have successfully installed PHPGroupware? [www.phpgroupware.org], and it appears to work reasonably well albeit rather slowly. When installing the applications into the MySQL database the device froze and required a restart but everything seemed to be there at that time and I was able to continue with the installation and setup normally.

So if you're looking for a webmail/calendar client then this might be worth a try. If anyone needs a howto I'd be happy to write one up.

If you really want to see yet another site running one of these then you could try:

kombi [dot] ath [another dot] cx:5418

Ignore the stuff on the page, it's merely there as something to look at and see how the wee beastie is performing, I'm even more useless than I claim to be there. PhpGroupware? can be reached with a /phpgroupware/login.php at the end of this address. Username demo, password demo, but be warned it is _slow_ ! Additionally I have NOT configured the mail section for security reasons but you will get the idea I'm sure :-) Calendar etc should display ok.

Luke.

Slimserver-Turbo

uNSLUng Version - V2.3R29-uNSLUng-5.5-beta

Slimserver Version - V6.1.0

2 x 256 Mb USB Flash Drives.

NSLU2 Clocked to 266MHz by removing R83.

Right now the Slug is serving up internet radio to 2 SliMP3 players in different rooms without a hitch, CPU is 55-75% according to top. Nice one!

To do the install, the order I followed was

  1. Installed uNSLUng firmware
  2. Followed the UseAMemoryStickAsMainDrive instructions
  3. Followed the InstallSlimServer instructions

Not sure why but has a couple of hicups along the way..

received a libz.so error on the 'file' util post installing the dev envornment - Fixed with ipkg install zlib
received a 'which' not found error compiling the slimserver perl modules fixed by adding /opt/bin to the path.
finally the slim server refused to start due to lack of memory, fixed by adding the second flash drive being used to add some swap (who knows how long it will last) :-)

Cheers

Ade

The first embedded MP3 Surround Decoder of the World was run on a NSLU2.

  • Unslung firmware 5.5 (now Openslug 2.0)
  • USB 5.1 sound interface
  • ALSA 1.0.9
  • And of course the MP3 Surround decoder

Best Regards,

Anonymous Coward

NSLU2 - Overclocked (removed R83) Hosting my divx and mp3 collection to my modded xbox under the telly. Backs up all my docs from my main PC every day using samba and an app called Cobian Backup Its my first play with Linux at home, though I have used it a bit previously but only to accomplish certain work tasks. Good fun to play properly without messing up a clients box :) Have installed phpgroupware for webmail and filesharing to my brother, but alas was too slow to be workable really so need to look at something else instead. I was actually surprised how easy it was to set up an SQL server, Apache webserver, PHP and Groupware! I expected it to be lot worse TBH.

Plans for future: Learn more about Linux, especially the standard directory structure as I am having trouble tracking down config files and logs in there at the mo ;) Get a web-based fileserver running for remote access to my MP3, vids, docs Get mail server setup General playing about.

Damien

NSLU2 unsluged with 160GB hd.

Present:

  • storing all my media on a network
  • php-thttpd web server: ok

Future:

  • using php-thttpd to serve file for the Freebox (a cheap adsl+phone+tv+mpg2 device connected to TV and hifi system) using a dedicated webinterface.
  • NFS/FTP

Cheers,

Landslide (David T)

A fattened and overclocked NSLU2 (128MB RAM) with a 1GB memstick for my root drive.

I plan to start building some packages and contributing to the NSLU2 Linux community.

Currently just toying with slug, learning about embedded Linux.

I'd been researching home NAS solutions for a while, and the info on www.nslu2-linux.org sold me on the Slug versus the Kuro or Dynology products&communities.

Jumped in with MyFirstSlug and two external Seagate Barracuda drives (200G & 300G from Frys Outpost for $170 total after rebates). Most of the headaches were hardware related (testing different enclosures, disk configs, etc). Finally settled on a pair of MetalGearBoxes? that were (1) cheap, (2) fanless but ventilated and (3) worked. Replacing the firmware with UnSlung? 5.5 was the easiest part. Thanks!

Now: serving photos 24X7 to various displays in the house and backing up networked machines nightly. Future: iTunes server, Gallery, ProFtpd, and general Linux experimentation.

This site rocks!

Normally-clocked (but soon to be de-underclocked) Slug running OpenVPN. Took a while to get going but it works perfectly now. I'm considering buying a bunch for work as they're so cheap and low power they make excellent VPN servers.

Tim V - if anyone wants help with OpenVPN you can try me (email talltim at gmail)

Alexander Dong

One Slug, overclocked. OpenSlug 2.5 Beta, 160GB HD, Use a 128MB USB stick as swap partition.

Use as a small web server for eBay pictures. Also as file server for Windows machines and streaming server for my DBOX2 (Not working fine now, recording broken).

Software: 

 - Apache
 - Samba
 - NFS
 - NTPClient

What I would like to do: 

 - Build up a development environment and try to compile ggrab
 - Try my webcam. :-)

Cheers Alexander Dong ( qiwen ! gmx (a) de )

slebetman http://slebetman.homeip.net

SLUG1 - Overclocked, added serial port, 80GB HD, uNSLUng.

Use as my main web server. Also as a means to access all my files from the outside world via SFTP/SSH.

This is actually my main machine right now. I'm accessing it either via my wife's Windows box or from work. Apart from this sweet slug I don't personally own another PC.

In the future I'll also be using it as a home automation server/master (why I need the serial port).

becol_BE

1 NSLU2, overclocked, 250GB Maxtor running Openslug 2.5 beta

  • Serves files to the workstations via Samba / NFS
  • Remote acces via SSH/SFTP
  • WakeLan to remotely wake up a workstation
  • Apache + mod_php4 for a small website and for putting public documents on the web
  • Monitors UPS (MGE Protection Center 500) via NUT 2.0.1
  • DynDNS update
  • ntpdate to synchronize clock
  • Native development enviroment (to install stuff like NUT from source)

WayneK

A newbie to this fun and I'm still figuring out how best utilize the toyz. Web server enhancements and remote access thru the hardware firewall are next on the learning program.

  1. 1 NSLU2 , overclocked, 2*200GB, slug 5.5beta, Twonkyvision mediaserver, SSH
  2. 2 NSLU2, R63 firmware, 1* 250GB NTFS +????. Nice to see that multiple NTFS drives show up with hub stuck onto disk 1.

Willy Tarreau - 2005/09/04

Found this project very interesting and loved the box when I first saw its description 2 months ago. I now use it as a general purpose little server, for various things including code portability testings, benchmarks, temporary replacement system, web server load-balancer, etc... I've even never used the initial firmware. Now, the box has changed quite a bit :

  • "overclocked" to 266 MHz
  • added the serial port
  • added USB device port
  • modded it to auto-power on

I've taken several intermediate photos that you can find here : http://w.ods.org/nslu2/photos

Phil Endecott -

I've installed OpenDebianSlug? on a brand-new NSLU2 with a 512MByte flash drive. I've boosted the clock speed to 266MHz using the resistor mod.

I'm using it to serve a printer via a D-Link 7-port USB 2.0 hub, using CUPS. Power to the printer is switched by the Slug using my SlugPower power switch. The print queue can be displayed on my SlugTerm LCD display, which I can also use to log in using a USB keyboard.

It is also set up as an NFS server, serving a 4GB flash drive as /home to my other machines. (The only moving parts in my network are in the printer: no fans, no disks.)

It also logs the power output from my solar panel over a Zigbee radio link, which is graphed here.

I have set up a cross development environment and used it to port Anyterm (see http://anyterm.org/).

There are links to all of my Slug projects here.

Wibbleman - 10 Sep 2005

One week in after first loading Unslung5.5beta, I've now got a total of 3 SLUG's (all de-underclocked, of course)

SLUG1 - 80GB/7200 USB Disc, raw drive & cheap cable.

SLUG2 - Similar to SLUG, planned to be compile/development/test host 

        Using another spare 80GB disc and £1 USB/IDE cable from ebay!

SLUG3 - Solid State Slug - 1GB Flash Disc, still running Apache+MySQL?+PHP & Multiple PHP-Apps etc!

Running APACHE/MySQL/PHP/ATFTP/PROFTP/FREERADIUS etc., also MC, DROPBEAR, CRON, NTPCLIENT, XINETD, NLOAD etc (PHP Apps include PhpMyadmin, WebCal, Gallery2 (Imagemagick not running), Moodle, EGroups, PHPBB, MediaWiki, GeekLog, Webalizer etc etc etc). (Note: Some apps (eg: Gallery/Moodle etc) are unusably slow, even on disc based SLUG - but its the principle that counts!)

Using the IP aliasing and virtual hosts capability of Apache/ProFTP I have got a single SLUG sitting as 10 virtual hosts, each at a seperate IP address etc. Neat Trick!

Great fun, was a challenge to get familair with LINUX, but think Ive made it!

Spiral Scratch 12 Sep 2005

After a little bit of fiddling around, now the proud owner of an unslung (5.5 beta) NSLU2 running mt-daapd.

HD is 120GB Western Digital in a CompUSA own label 3.5" external drive case.

Next up: VPN, Gallery2 (thanks for the idea Wibbleman!). I may even dare to de-underclock soon.

Ron - 13 Sep 2005

After having 'played' with Debian on some older PC's, I stumbled across this little device. I started with Unslung 5.5 but had some stability issues and decided to give OpenSlug a try. My Slug has been running rocksolid stable ever since. Haven't overclocked it yet, but will do so very soon. had a spare 2.5" USB hardisk (40GB) which holds everyting at the moment (rootfs, data, swap). It is powered through the USB interface of the Slug.

My Slug is used as a replacement for an old PC running Debian and acting as a fileserver, mailserver, webserver, DNS/DHCP server, FTP server, Time server for the LAN. Currently I'm running: 

 - OpenSlug 2.5-beta
 - SAMBA
 - DNSMASQ
 - VSFTP
 - OPENNTP
 - THTTPD
 - XMAIL

Had to compile XMAIL natively from the original sources since I couldn't get the Unslung package running and there is no OpenSlug package.

Next: PHP-enabled website (like AppWeb or PHP-THTTPD) for this Slug and a second Slug to act as firewall.

Ed Luck - 13 Sep 2005

One Slug, running OpenSlug 2.5 beta, VSFTPD and Samba. Storage is a 200GB Western Digital WD2000JB. Very quiet, so long as you dampen the vibration of the drive with some foam padding under the USB hard disk case.

A bit of history: The appeal of low-power and zero noise appliances is extremely appealing to me because I hate noisy computers (I spend hours and hours in server rooms). I was introduced to this wonderful world of embedded Linux by the Linksys WRT54G, now quite happily running OpenWrt for some time! My recently purchased Slug has been de-underclocked and has replaced my noisy and power-hungry Active Directory DC. Running Samba as a PDC, I now have a totally silent fileserver and domain controller that pulls less than 20 watts.

What more could you ask!

SwavMcAv - 13 Sep 2005

I have achieved the next step on the path to audio visual enlightment!

I finally unslung the slug to 5.5 Beta and installed DP500serv 1.7.

This streams the content of my USB drives in the attic of my house to the Kiss DVD player under the telly in the living room. If I need more storage for my media I can just plug in another cheap Maxtor drive.No power hungry PC required. Just my wee slug humming away in the attic.

FanBloodyTastic !

What next? Bittorrent? mail server? Itunes?..ah the possibilities.

Big thanks to BiG for the DPServe software.

Jeroen - 18 Sep 2005 (updated 2008.02.23)

I have two slugs in my network. Paradise is running Debian and is over-used as a music box (output through Aureon 5.1 USB MKII, played with MPD, with epmcd as one control and using LIRC through a Windows Media Center 2005 remote as the other), WebCam? (using Motion for feeding it to the network, of course over IPv6) and as a generic archive box (also for the music :). Oh and it is providing the IPv6 connectivity to my whole network using AICCU(approve sites) and radvd. This as the current DD-WRT beta builds don't come with IPv6 enabled.

Eden unfortunately is quite dead, it won't boot anymore, I'll need to JTAG it to get it to work. gallery.unfix.org moved to abaddon.unfix.org which is a very nice hosted box, which is quite a bit faster than a slug, can't have 1Gbit ports on a slug now can we.

Avinesh - September 20, 2005

Running a turbo slug using Unslung 5.5 beta with an 120 GB Seagate 7200 RPM drive in an external 3.5" ByteCC USB 2.0 enclosure. Currently running Apache 2.0.54, PHP 5.0.4, eAccelerator 0.9.2, MySQL 4.11, OpenSSH 3.8pl1, WordPress 1.5.2, Webalizer and Samba at www.avinesh.com.

Firewall and NAT are provided by a Linksys WRT54G v2 running with 32 MB SDRAM (unlocked) and Talisman/Basic 1.0.5. DynDNS service provided by ZoneEdit.com.

Thanks go to the NSLU2-Linux team for making this happen. Keep up the good work!

Bomi - September 22, 2005

Running NSLU2 with Unslung 5.5beta: Apache+PHP, MySQL, FTP, OpenSSH. All stored on a 250GB WD2500 Harddisk. And I still use the harddisk to save data, mp3s and other files over the net... It was so easy to install. Thanks 4 all of your work!

Lou - September 23, 2005

Running NSLU2 with Openslug 2.1beta with some 2.3beta packages. Waiting for 2.6. Been running for a number of months.

LDAP, DHCP, DNS, NTP, NFS, syslog-ng, postfix

Daz - September 27, 2005

Running NSLU2 with Unslung 5.5Beta - Un-De-Clocked with Seagate 80GB Barracuda HDD for silent running.

Loaded Samba, SWAT, Apache, PHP, MySQL and tried phpBB - but runs a little slow! Well worth the £50 I spent on ebay!

Thanks to you all for your hard work.

hilikus - September 29, 2005

Unslung 5.5Beta on a 300GB Seagate, R83 removed.

Shares media via samba to my main PC, wifi laptop and xbox. Using samba for itunes rather than have another daemon running. OpenSSH for key\passphrase only remote access. Screen and ctorrent for BitTorrent, apart from not reporting download stats or when you disconnect to the tracker, it works rather well.

Planning to add more memory, and look into a way to manage hdd spindown via the slug

seanzilla oct 4 2005

unslung 5.5 512 mb usb stick in slot 1 and maxtor 1 touch as drive 2

My slug is serving webpages with apache, twonkyvision is dishing out the media, and VSFTPD is doing its thing. I have also un-underclocked by removing the resistor noted and have not had any problems.

Lurgen - 5 October 2005

Unslung 5.5 2 x Seagate Barracuda 400GB IDE disks 2 x Vantec USB2/Firewire drive cases

I'm running with the standard partitions on SDA1, SDA2 and SDA3 with the root partition unslung to SDA1. The difference is my SDA1 is a mere 1GB in size. SDA4 and SDB4 are identically configured partitions joined together in a RAID0 configuration. Took a lot of work to get it right, but I now have almost 800GB of RAID0 disk available to me.

Primary use is sharing out my media collection (video and audio), but I also use it to store backups of data that resides on other machines.

Thanks for all the effort from the entire project group too.

EddyP - 10 October 2005

One slug running Unslung 5.5 1x40 GB HDD 1xUSB-Fast Ethernet Adapter (apparently from Mentor) (has the AX88712 chip)

The slug runs as: 

 * router/firewall for my internet connection
 * ftp server
 * subversion server for my work

Soon: 

 * web server to host my projects
 * build/test machine for Debtoo

I want to thank all the guys that contributed to this project, and also to the ones that made it possible.

Hoberion

Unslung 5.5b, 1GB flash disk, OC'ed Reverse Proxy server (apache) for internal webservers sshd Tried to run Jinzora but it was too slow

Soon: moving reverse proxy to squid Main portal for internal sites

Love the possibilities of this machine, thinking about getting another one to play since this one is in production now :-)

Steinar

Three slugs (OpenSlug 2.7):

  • One slug (memstick as / partition, compactflash card as /home) uses photopc to control a Coolpic 995 digital camera which acts as a webcam.
  • Another slug (memstick as / partition, compactflash as /home) run two 1-wire weather station networks.
  • The last slug (64MB RAM, memstick as / partition, compactflash as /home and 300GB Maxtor OneTouch as /mp3 partition) has a GPS attached, logs its data and is used as an NTP server. Also, it runs SlimServer and provide MP3 and internet radio to one SliMP3 and one Squeezebox. This slug has a swap file and I also use it for native compiling.

They all serve what they log with NFS, but I'm considering to use unison instead. I managed to make a bytecode version of unison, whereas a native code version failed because ocaml uses hardware floating point whereas the gcc toolchain uses software floating points.

JimmyFergus - NSLU2/Debian ssh/web/mail/squirrelmail/privoxy server. Turboslugged 2005/10

Dennis (diggo a t freewaregamez.de)

1 x NSLU2 - I am using DebianSlug and run:

  • One complete LAMP
  • Torrentdownloader
  • MRTG, to watch my Servers and Routers
  • Not yet a PDC, this will be on my next NSLU :)
    THANKS TO ALL YOU GUYS THAT MAKE THIS SMALL BOX SO POWERFUL!

27.10.2005

Brian 

 * De-underclocked Slug running unslung 5.5 Beta
 * 250 Gb Maxtor Drive in icybox USB 2.0 Enclosure so no spindown (yet)
 * Twonkyvision Media Server: to stream music everywhere (See Note)
 * Samba: for file storage        
 * thttpd: for our family web server

Note: I was never going to accept a Windows Box as a proprietary or uPnP server for Media files, but I never thought the Linux box that would do it would be this small!

Great work guys!

01.11.2005

Schorsch

NSLU2 w/o disk drive serves as an ethernet interface of a topfield TF5000PVR

  • uNSLUng 5.5
  • puppy 1.11*
  • ftpd-topfield 0.6

all installed in flash, using perl and Net::FTP to communicate

Garry

One slug running Unslung 5.5 160GB USB hard drive modified vdr-mediamvp (0.1.6), the server for hauppauge mediamvp now has most of the functions enabled, videos, music, photos (slideshow) internet radio, news feed, etc.

Thanks for all the guys making this possible.

Dave P

One slug running unslung 5.5 with a 250GB western digital branded enclosure. It's running:

  • appweb with gallery 1.5
  • proftpd
  • openssh/ssl
  • kernel nfs - I did try unfs3 but I couldn't get it to work with my BSD box.

todo: turbo mod the slug, set up a dns cache, think about setting up a http proxy.

Frank L

Got me one Slug, fed it some 266MHz steroids and set it up as file server and iTunes server in 2 days... not bad for a Windows geek but Linux beginner (of the absolute kind).

This is the most amazing thing I ever saw.... and it's not the end.

Steve W

One Slug running 5.5Beta with a 250Gb Buffalo USB 2.0 drive.

Using the Slug as an iTunes server (mt-daapd).

As a total Linux beginner, this took me around 4 hours to achieve, which I think just goes to show what a great job everyone has done!! Thanks to you all....

Roberto P.

Running Unslug 5.5 with Maxtor 250GB drive.

- SSH Terminal with dropbear

- iTunes Server with mt-daapd

- File sharing and network backup

It works great :-) Many thanks to Unslug Staff All.

Mark T Unslung 5.5 250GB drive using rsync over ssh to mirror live servers So easy to setup, and wonderfully cheap hardware too. Fantastic bit of kit. Will be buying more.

Liviu Ionescu

Running a modified OpenSlug (booting from a loop mounted ext filesystem stored on a FAT formatted HDD)

Freecom FHD-2 Pro 80G USB powered (the slug had no problems to power it).

Jukebox with more than 400 disks (almost 6000 songs). mt-daapd seems to have no problems with that many files, it scans the entire libray in 2-3 minutes at startup and serves iTunes in several seconds.

To update the music library I export the mp3 directory to my PC and use iTunes with the remote resource; performance is not a problem.

2005.11.30

Hartmut Semken

Running a seasons greeting at the companies office - pure geek style.

A Slug with OpenSlug 2.5-beta sends a text file out the console port. The text file consists of VT-220 escape sequences that show a cristmas tree with blinking stars and such and a train running across the screen. The file is old (I grabbed it from the motd our admin put on the VAX in 1987, no idea where it really originates).

I am using the console port on the motherboard. As level shifter I use a cable originally intended for some GSM-Phone - cheap way to get a max3232 with all external parts and a D-sub connector :-)

Using an original Dec VT-220 is probably as retro as you can get - if you want the double height characters.

Photo of the setup on mobimuemmel-is-a-geek.net, the text file is there as well.

2-Dec-2005 hase

Jonathan H

Using a 266mhz slug with uNSLUng 5.5 Beta firmware and a 80GB Maxtor Onetouch HDD.

  • Using Postfix as a backup MX.
  • Using thttpd and MRTG to graph my router via SNMP.
  • Using cTorrent to download torrents.

As the slug is overclocked and on 24/7 I have attached a chipset heatsink using thermal adhesive to the CPU.

10.12.05

krifi07, Munich

just got unslung 5.5 using a Maxtor OneTouch II 300GB - which spins down as described. Thanks to all the guys who did put a lot of effort and work in producing all these descriptions - for people like me, as a complete Linux newbie. So far I did it for having a music server with TwonkyVision. Reading all this, I'm thinking about doing further nice things with it...

16.12.05

Thx1011, Lisbon, Portugal 

 Just bought my first Slug... :-)
 Using OpenSlug 2.7 bin with an old portable 2,5' 30GB disk with a no-name case. Works very well.

 Using for:
    - Compilation environment (testing)
    - aMule 2.0.3 (Still in tests)
    - TwonkyVision for serving files to an D-Link DSM-320. It works quit well!!
    - MySql
    - Thttpd
    - OpenSSH

 Job's to be done: Compiling MediaTomb for testing.

 Lot of things for a so little device and very low power consuming device.

Good work!

17.12.05 

  Update:  18/9/2006
  • OpenSlug is working OK.
  • aMule 2.0.3 works ok, but sometimes it crashes OpenSlug. I think some memory consuption issue or disk issue.
  • Gave up of using TwonkyVision and I use Mediatomb for streaming to D-Link DSM-320. Slug speed is ok for streaming audio, but for video, it needs nothing else to be running, like aMule for example. Otherwise it works well. My Slug is not overclocked.

kamcgough, York Pennsylvania

Slug Carputer

Features:

  • Auto start, timed shutwdowns
  • Battery Operation
  • mt-daapd
  • Twonky Mediaserver
  • Serving ROKU SoundBridge
  • Flash Boot
  • rsync'd podcasts/audiofiles over wireless
  • Serial to PalmIIIx

Soon to be released:

  • RF controlled starts from keychain fob
  • LCDProc

StrongStrong

Peter Passchier, Vancouver, Canada

DebianOpenSlug mixing Sid and Sarge booting from OpenSlug 2.7 on 120 GB 3.5" hard drive, running at 266 MHz. Patched for auto-power-on with MCP120-450DI/TO method.

Main uses:

  • IMAP Network Mail server (fetchmail to dovecot)
  • PBX server, serving softphones on PCs and a Sayson/Aastra 480i SIP phone (asterisk)
  • TFTP server for phone config files & firmware upgrades
  • Net backup and storage for PCs (ftp/scp)
  • Network printer server - printer on second USB port (cups)
  • DNS & DHCP server
  • Wiki (didiwiki)

Future ideas:

  • Network scanner server (no-go so far...)
  • LDAP server

Texas, USA

Less than a week into NSLU2fest '06 and must say they are impressive, already replaced my main webserver with first NSLU2

NSLU2[1] http://dyn.homelinux.com/ Unslung 5.5 Beta lighttpd php openssh eaccelerator samba

msteveb Brisbane, Australia

  • OpenSlug 2.7+, no external disk, 266MHz
  • Topfield TF5000PVRt connector with ftpd-topfield
  • Bluetooth Access Point for Palm

Frankfurt, Germany

Slug running at 266mhz with OpenSlug 2.7-beta firmware.

Features:

  • PPP dialup
  • USB Bluetooth (Belkin) <--> Cell phone
  • DnsMasq (DNS/DHCP)
  • Iptables (NAT)
  • SSH/Dropbear
  • 512 MB memstick (mounted as /)

Todo (preferred to the current solution):

  • Diald
  • wvdial
  • Upgrade Slug to 128MB Ram

Hardware: Allnet ALL6100

Vyacheslav Batenin, Moscow, Russia

OpenSlug 2.7, 266 MHz

250 Gb 3.5" Hitachi DeskStar HDD, noname USB box AudioTrak OptoPlay USB sound card, connected to ZyXel P-660HW ADSL modem/WiFi router

Works as a home music center, stores MP3, FLAC music file collection, plays music files through the sound card to my home stereo system.

Controlled by HP IPAQ rx3700 PDA running Nevo 2.0 media control software.

Runs home-developed UPnP-compatible music server software.

Plans: 1) Install Squid proxy (still have to figure how to stop it constantly accessing 

   filesystem to allow HDD spindown when idle).

2) Publish sources for my music server.

evilninjamaster, London, UK

  • backup of media files (.mp3, .DivX.avi, .jpgs)
  • running Twonkyvision media server to serve Video. Right now, only have a PC client (boooo!!!)... waiting for the price of A/V H/W clients to come down. WinAmp works the best.
  • serving audio to iTunes via mt-daapd

Anakin, Italy

I've a 266Mhz Slug with a 2.5" 80Gb hard-drive in a usb 2.0 case. I'm using the new DebianSlug(LE) based on official Debian etch (testing) repositories for:

  • OpenSSH server for remote administration;
  • samba&ftp&sftp access to my backups;
  • rsync for a fast syncronization of backups;
  • rtorrent to download torrents 24h/24h;
  • amuled to download from emule/kadmlia networks (controlled from my notebook with amulegui);
  • centralized syslog repository for all my networked-stuff.

I can't use it as mail-server because my ADSL provider uses to block the SMTP port :( . I'm still looking for other ideas. :D

This is a magic box!

DarkskyZ, France

2 Slugs both running unNSLUng 5.5 @ 266MHz

Slug 1 : 2 x 300Go

  • OpenSSH for secure login
  • mt-daapd to access my music library from all my LAN computers running iTunes (would need to get one of those Airtunes devices too...). This is a very cool feature !
  • NTPD to keep my SLUG on time and all my LAN devices as well !
  • rsync
  • vsftpd
  • BASH
  • All packages upgraded
  • Drive 1 to drive 2 activated (thanks to rsync hack)

Slug 2 : 1 x 40Go

  • OpenSSH
  • NTPD
  • rsync
  • BASH
  • All packages upgraded

Slug 1 and Slug 2 are actually 800km away from each other, with DSL on each side. I set up a backup job that backups some "vital" stuff from Slug 2 to Slug 1 through ssh using a script with rsync and cron. I also set up another script that synchronizes a "shared" folder on each Slug. It runs 3 times a day. Very usefull ! This remote backup function is really a cool application as I get remote backup storage as easy as pie :o)

All this really helps me improve my Linux skills each day.

Keep all these good things going !

/DarkskyZ

Rien, the Netherlands

After having some stability issues with twonkyvision on unslung 5.5 I switched to openslug and it works fine now. Great device to use with Twonkyvision

my hardware: nslu2 @ 266Mhz usb1: 1 x 2,5" 10 GB disk in 2,5" conceptronics case(system) usb2: noname usb hub with attached: 

    1 x 3,5" 250GB maxtor (data)
    1 x 3,5" 250GB samsung in 3,5" conceptronics case (data)

installed is: openslug twonkyvision media server 3.0 samba swat

todo: add mt-daap or openslug equivalent for itunes support

P.S. for those who wonder about the disk capacity. Yes its all used for Media files. I have put my CD collection to mp3, stored all my digital photo's and with openslug and twonkyvision I have no problems with it (mp3: 10.000, photo: 6.000,video: 250)

Thanks to all the persons who made this possible.

Rien

  • unslung 5.5
  • USB-Drive from Western Digital
  • TwonkyVision, to feed my D-Link DSM-320, seems to stream my MP3 and Divx Video's just fine!

/Peter Dahlman (peter@kod.nu)

cnczane, Westgonsin what:

  • one slug 266MHz mod before first power-on, unslung: two 300Gb Maxtor II OneTouch

why: media server vision, was:

  • one 300Gb files
  • one 300Gb backup (RAID0 or rsync'd)

vision, as implemented:

  • TWO 300Gb files
  • TWO MORE to be purchased for backup <sigh>

olli, Germany, Hannover

  • 2 Slugs, both installed with unslung 5.5, working great
  • 1 with 2 250 GB Seagate Barracuda as file storage and backup for 2 PCs, 2 Laptops and one VDR
  • 1 with 1 160 GB WD RaidEdition as OpenVPN-Server serving an incoming VPN for me,
    and serving as an OpenVPN-client-gateway to my Servers in a CC,
  • all that behind a Siemens SE515 as 1st FW (connecting 4 other appartements to the internet),
    and another (semi-good) linksys product, a WRT54G as firewall into our appartement.

Would like to do more, but not daring to ... working all so well by now ... ;-)

Three slugs:

Link_NAS - overclocked - File and Print server running uNSLUng 

  - 300GB Maxtor Drive
  - Twonkymedia (for Xbox)
  - HP832c printer using Samba/cups

Link_ED - overclocked - Utility server running uNSLUng 

  - 2.5GB Seagate Pocket Drive
  - CM11A for x10
  - Running heyu and bluelava to control lights

Link_STORM - web page server running Open Slug 

  - 160GB Segate Drive
  - Davis Weather Envoy
  - wview handles weather data (www.taengle.net/weather)

Still have some fine tuning to do - cutting over from older boxes, but...

Went from having an OLD RedHat version on an OLD (circa 1993) PC and a 333MHz Windows box to three little slugs and now I have less heat and noise AND a lot of capacity available. These things are GREAT!

Merlin123

1 Slug@266MHz

  • Openslug on a 256MB USB stick
  • 250GB Drive with integrated USB 2.0 hub with samba
  • Topfield 5500PVR accessed via ftpd-topfield

Todo:

Webcam

Jingojazza

2 Slugs at 266MHz

1 with latest LinkSys? Firmware soon to be unslung. Used for windows file sharing and storing music to two 250GB USB Drives.

1 Unslung 5.5

  • OpenSSH server for remote admin and mucking about with from work.
  • Extra thttp serving my own small web pages.
  • Twonkyvision UPnP? Media server serving mp3s to my Netgear MP101?.
  • Gnump3d mp3 ogg media server to my home pcs.

The Slug seems to be able to serve mp3s etc to my MP101? and up to 4 PCs? using the Gnump3d server with no problem. It does seem to take a while to boot up, must be the indexing of the large music collection.

Todo: Would like to get a webcam running for home security and remote monitoring.

All in all has been a great project and a good learning experience.

Gnump3d: Just install perl and gnump3d as per instructions and mod a file bin/getlibdir as per http://www.mail-archive.com/gnump3d-users@gnu.org/msg00143.html , works great.....

PacoGonzalez?

Finally have it working ! Dont laugh, its kind of complicated for the linux illiterate. Firmware is original Linksys v2.3r25 with the RamHackU2 patch. I did run a second httpd instance on port 81 with the data on a usb-flash. Worked fine. Then, i went running only one httpd instance on port 80 with the data on a usb-flash. Works fine, except that i cant enable telnet any more because i could not figure out how to chmod the telnet.cgi on the flash...

Plz dont break it, it's here http://212.254.198.33/

Tuxorama - Darmstadt, Germany

2 Slugs:

  • 1 with Openslug / Debian
  • 1 with Gentoo/arm

Hardware:

  • Attached digital vt420 Terminal
  • RFID Reader connected and running
  • Working on expansion board (4 relais / 4 Opto inputs)
  • Todo: a webcam (logitec quickcam II)
  • Todo: a sound device

Software:

  • perl running
  • samba/nfs running
  • Todo: cone mailclient
  • Todo: mp3 server

Erik H., Germany

2 Slugs (still 133 MHz?)

1. Slug is "production environment" 

   Uses Unslung 5.5-beta and a 1 GB USB-Stick behind DSL-modem.
   Some extra packages (perl+date-manip, wakelan, apache,ssh)
   to run a bunch of CGI-scripts implementing a simple
   "TV recording" web page. When a recording has to start
   the Slug powers up the TV-Tuner-PC.
   Also running ddclient binary to sync my WAN-IP with dyndns.org.
   Open (optional): Connect HD to Slug, copy recordings to SLUG-HDD so
   they can be accessed from remote even if TV-Tuner-PC is off (again).

2. Slug is "development environment" 

   Still original firmware. The idea is to run native development environment
   (Unslung, OpenSlug, etc.) and to store backups of old sources/projects and
   new projects (e.g. replacing the above slow perl+date-manip solution
   with native C-programs).

OverClocking?: 

   Currently using old harddisk circuit boards to train breaking
   of resistors (seems to be easy) or to properly remove/add one
   using soldering (never done before) to go for 266 MHz? ;-)

Erik

Lorenzo Mattei, Italy

one slug with Openslug 3.17 (266 MHz?) 

 - OpenSSH for remote access
 - thttpd for my little web site
 - vsftpd 
 - samba/nfs shares
 - rsync for backup my PC
 - mt-daap serving music to my PCs?
 - amuled (controlled from web and from amulegui on PC)

TODO: 

 - dp500serv to stream to my player
 - USB scanner service to scan from other PC in the lan

Lorenzo

Ben Papworth, UK

uNSLUng 5.5beta slug (266MHz) with 320Gb WD drive 

 - OpenSSH
 - Secure CVS server over SSH
 - Twiki running on thttpd
 - Samba shares

Pretty useful box for hosting development wiki and CVS.

Ben

Florian, SW Germany

First Slug running Gentoo Linux with three external 160GB Seagate HDDs? acting as fileserver in a small company. Two HDDs? as Software RAID1? and one as backup with daily, weekly and monthly backup jobs.

Second Slug also running Gentoo Linux with USB soundcard and 80GB 2,5" HDD acting as MP3?-Player and Slimserver for the Squeezebox from Slimdevices. For that the RAM is a bit small, and response times are too long but it works ;-)

Navisence - Leuven, Belgium - March 2006

Gentoo Slug as in this article: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Linksys_NSLU2.

Slug in use as openssh-server, also running postfix, fetchmail, procmail, bogofilter, mutt, courier-imap and exporting NFS shares to the home network.

Provat - Paris, France - March, 2006

Using unslung 5.X beta and overclocked my slug. Principally using it for three multimedia servers(Twonky3.1, wizd, Oxylbox on apache) to feed each and every multimedia players(upnp and non upnp) at home, Can't imagine doing /running all these without a PC.

TO DO, Planning to have another slug to run open slug for a change to run amule, and mail server, as I don't wanna break my unslung.

S.Fraser - UK - March 2006

Running my blog off a 1G flash drive using Apache: [Removed link as its currently down]

Also using Twonky 3.1 with a USB HDD to run my MP3? collection to UPNP devices.

TO DO, Plans to add a small gallery to website and to make remote login avalible so I can edit while not at home.

Provat - Paris/France - April 2006

Ok, Had my 2nd slug overclocked and running openslug beta 2.7. I have dedicated it to run amule. So done as I said in my previous posting. Slug 1 running unslung and slug 2 running openslug. Thanks nslu2-linux.

janne - Sweden April 2006 uNSLUng 5.5beta slug (266MHz) 

 - OpenSSH
 - cups Printserver with a Oki printer
 - Simple homesite http://jnrn.sytes.net/
 - Samba shares and swat
 - to do: learning more about Linux.

hemaho - 2 slugs - Germany April 04, 2006

Slug1, 266MHz, unslung-5.5, 2* 120GB HDD: SMB, NFS, WINS, DNS, DHCP, RSYNC, NTP, SYSLOG

Slug2, 266Mhz, openslug-2.7, 2* 40GB HDD: NFS, SSERVER/GGRAB (Streaming for my Dreambox 500S)

Todo: mailserver with spamfilter on slug2

Works great, thanks to the teams from unslung and openslug for this great piece of software!!

Steve G - Cambridge, UK - April 2006

I used to have a mail server with: 1 Slug, V2.3R63-uNSLUng-6.8-beta & de-underclocked to 266MHz
+ an old 20GB 2.5" drive in a cheap enclosure from eBay!

This was replaced in October 2006:

1 x 64M FatSlug? @266 MHz?, SlugOS/LE 3.10, Debian Etch via bootstrap
+ sda = 1GB Flash drive + sdb = WD 160GB hard drive

Basically working as a mail server:
- exim4 - getmail to pull mail from various old POP3 accounts
- Dovecot IMAP to serve it up to my PC's (using Windows + Mozilla Thunderbird)
- LightTPD? + PHP-FCGI + Squirrelmail so I can access it remotely
- openldap provides the same address book to Squirrelmail & Thunderbird
- openssh

Roberto - Stamford, CT - April 17th, 2006

1 Slug, unslung 5.5beta
* openssh
* cups (installed but not yet working)
* todo: de-underclocking
* todo: disk spin-down
1 300GB Samsung 3.5"
1 Vantec NexStar? 3 enclosure (NST-360U2)

e - Germany - April 23rd, 2006

  • DebianSlug (installation worked exactly as described on http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/)
  • Debian Etch with kernel 2.6.15-nslu2
  • 266 MHz? (just used a sharp knife and some force to remove the resistor)
  • 2,5" HDD with 40GB as main disk
  • USB-Hub with 2 HDDs? (250GB, 300GB) for backups
  • ToDo?: try my webcam
  • having a full-featured Debian system on the NSLU2 is just great. Thank you very much for the great work.

Prometeux - Santander -Spain - 2 May 2006

My First slug but not the last :P

  • DebianSlug ARM oficial PORT
  • 3,5" 80GB main disk
  • Lighttpd + PHP + SqlLite?
  • TorrentFlux?
  • Vsftp
  • Openssh
  • Surveillance with webcam, streaming and recording
  • TODO: overcloking,Home automation X10... and follow researching :)

Thanks to everybody of nslu2-linux.org.

digitalsushi - New Hampshire USA May 8 2006

  • My second slug, but first overclocked and running something else (I went with the Debian port)
  • 160 and 200 gig drives stock in cheap 15 dollar plastic USB enclosures

==Note for Debian installers: When you go from the Linksys firmware to the Debian port, if you don't have ALL of the networking settings configured (I didn't have a gateway or DNS set), the firmware will NOT boot. I got this info from the IRC chatroom the Debian developers camp in.==

hedone , ghent Belgium May

My First slug and very happy with it ! (already thinking about buying a second for php/mysql)

  • de-underclocked ;-)
  • screen + bitchx for IRC
  • postfix + dovecot (imap) for mail
  • samba for fileserving needs (300 GB maxtor)
  • ssh for external access
  • ddclient + thttpd for webserving

thanks a lot !

mjed - St Albans, UK, 21st May 2006

One slug running OpenSlug 2.7 beta on a 2Gig USB Flash drive. Overclocked, and an extra 3 USB ports added. RAID 1 and 0 across two 250G drives using the inbuilt USB ports. Raid 1 space used for critical data, the raid 0 for non-critical (and is much bigger). A bit of swap also on the HDD to save the flash memory from this stress! Samba 3 running as PDC (with swat). Roaming profiles saved on RAID1? space. Extra drive mapped onto RAID0?.

Future - may add a webserver, or some streaming media. I run most other linux home-network utilities already on my WRTG54?!

David - Stockholm, Sweden 29 May 2006

- One slug running unslung 5.5, - 250 Gb maxtor drive. - dp_serv0.9, feeding a Kiss dp 1500 dvd player with movies/music. - TwonkyMusic server, feeding music to a Netgear mp101 and a Noxon Terratec player. - Libbt, downloading torrents, controlled by my own made Windows app.

SwavMcav? - Glasgow, Scotland's Biggest and Best City, UK, 23 may 2006

I rebuilt my slug after disk crash and use it for general shared storage (backed up daily) and serving media to Kiss DVD player.
- 2 x 250GB Western Digital Essentials drives (one live, one backup)- these babies spin 

  down automatically without any mucking about straight from the box.
- 1 slug running unslung 5.5
- rsync performing daily scheduled incremental backups from disk 1 to disk 2
- dp_serv1.7 serving up movies/music/pictures to Kiss 1504 network dvd player

To do :
- mail server
- de-underclock

Igor from Milan Italy. 25/26-05-2006 I've just finished installing Debian on my nslu2. Wow! Everything's working! The only weird thing is that while I was planning the overclock, I tested cpu speed by doing 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' and got 266 BogoMips? with the original HW. Someone else got the same result?

To do: LAMP server. Audio Stream server.

Zadrau - 2 slugs - Sweden

Slug 1 OpenSlug-2.7-Beta

  • 266 MHz?
  • 60GB Seagate drive in a canyon 3.5" enclosure
  • OpenSSH
  • Postfix
  • Cyrus imapd
  • Apache (SSL enabled)
  • PHP
  • MySQL?
  • SquirrelMail?

Slug 2 OpenSlug-2.7-Beta

  • 266 MHz?
  • 250GB Iomega
  • OpenSSH
  • Samba server
  • NFS server
  • DNSMasq? (dns & dhcp server)
  • tftp server (atftp)
  • Twonkey media 3.1 (serving media to a Xbox360 and an Acer LCD TV)

Cud - Finland 07.06.2006

Unslung 6.8 Beta

  • Twonkyvision (D-Link DSM-320)
  • Jinzora
  • Puppy (ProCaster? TF5102C? 200Gb)
  • Webserver
  • OpenSSH
  • PHP
  • Samba server
  • 400 Gb WD HDD
  • 512 Mb Flash
  • 266 MHz? (Update 15.07.2006)

ephejasus - Germany 13.06.2005

Unslung 6.8 Beta

  • OpenSSH
  • Samba server
  • netatalk (Apple fileserver)
  • thttp
  • PHP
  • unslung to 512 MB flash
  • 250 GB Hitachi drive

Provat --- Paris/France 14/06/2006 Debian Slug OS 3.10 beta running successfully in dhcp boot on an overclocked slug , with packages installed like mldonkey, samba,gmediaserver,midnight commander,amule,gnump3d. DEBIAN the best the greatest. Do whatever you like with. Liberty at last.

Klaas - Netherlands 17.06.2005

Unslung 6.8 Beta

  • OpenSSH
  • Samba server
  • thttpd on port 8888 for KML pages to a KISS DP-1500s
  • thttpd on port 8081 for my own website on WWW
  • armlink for serving a KISS DP-1500s (PC-Link replacement)
  • unslung to 1 Gb SD flash card in a multi-card reader on USB-1
  • swap on a small capacity CF card in that same multi-card reader
  • 250 GB Western Digital MyBook? Essential (will spindown automatically)

Nick, Redbourn, Herts, UK July 2005

Openslug 3.10 - 1GB flash (after stability problems with unslung 5.5/6.8)

To download recordings from my topfield pvr (puppy, ftpd-tofield) to replace the EPG on the toppy (radio times, openntp, rt2mei - see www.wooders.co.uk/rt2mei) to server music to mp101 (twonkyvision, spare nfs 250GB disk in enclosure, and backup copy on windows PC - via nfs mount: kernel-module-nfs - 2.6.16-r6.4 ) backup OS to a spare flash memory stick using rsync

General Slug, UK, July 2006

Openslug 3.8-beta (Custom Speetouch ADSL Kernel) - 1Gb Flash

Slug is used in combination with a kernel mode Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem. gShield is used for NAT/IPTables? firewalling, port-forwarding, etc. SSH for remote log-on.

The Speedtouch USB 330 ADSL Modem has been used in combination with the Slug for 5 months; it is 100% reliable.

It is about time that the speedtouch kernel module was made part of the standard Openslug release.

Bartek Wilczynski <bartek@rezolwenta.eu.org>

I've just recently bought the thing and already installed the DebianSlug on it. Since I have the old debian on it, I'll use it as a general purpose "home server".

Thanks for all developers for contributing to it.

Markus <Lev2120@gmx.net>

uNSLUng 6.8 250GB HDD, 512MB USBKey? (unsling onto)

Besides the common use as a fileserver my NSLU serves as a shoutcast recorder. Every morning a nice new load of music. :-)

Sweden

DebianSlug

streaming media to my kiss dvd-player, Web-server (thttpd), print-server

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Poutnik - Czech Republic 16.8.2006

Unslung 6.8 Beta - running for almost a year (combined with 5.5 version)

  • 266 MHz? (for around 2 months)
  • Samba server
  • squid proxy server
  • apache on port 8000 for my home website (edit: I removed apache and installed lighttpd + php instead - much faster and with lower memory footprint)
  • mysql database server
  • postgresql database server (removed)

Simply great...

postjosh in nyc aug 16 '06

i'm using it to back up 2 ibook g4 macs and hold my itunes library. i'm running unslung 6.08 from the flash memory on the nslu2. i found that if i unslung it to a drive, that drive would never spin down. i'm using two western digital mybook essential 250 gb drives and they spin down nicesly after about 10 mins. i'm backing up the ibooks using superduper accross a wifi network. the nslu2 is connected to an airport exterme via ethernet and wirelessly to the network using wds. i only keep the library for itunes on the nslu2. i run itunes on an ibook. the connection is reliable, but the startup time is slow. i'm planning on doing the mod that speeds up the nslu2 processor speed. thanks for all the tips here. for under $400 new, i have 500 gb for music an unattended backup. the slug rocks!

RhH? Copenhagen

This is just the single greatest thing, I've ever purchased!

It runs: Storage (Samba) Music server (mt-daapd) SSH (OpenSSH) Torrent downloader (enhanced-ctorrent + ctcs)

I must say, I'm awe struck by the muscle of this little fella. I've tried the following simultaneously and still no choke:

4xCMD running pings against it 2xItunes streaming mp3 from it 2xCtorrent downloading on it 2x700MB avi files playing from it 4xSSH sessions doing various stuff

O_o whats really in this thing!?

Picioslug Siena-Italy 14-9-06

Very happy to say my Slug is running for about six months, without any maintenance need!

  • Lighttpd
  • FastCGI?
  • PHP
  • Samba
  • Python
  • and...py-django, currently in development!

Everything works on two 1Gb pendrives.

Thanks guys, really!

giannimagni - Sassari-Italy

Unslug 5.5 & Lacie 250GB drive (7+ months)

  • SSH
  • Samba
  • Enhanced-ctorrent + CTCS
  • aMuled
  • development* backup procedure (rsync) on new 250 GB Western Digital MyBook? Essential

I love this