NSLU2 – Slug box

Bought a new LinkSys NSLU2 or Slug Box as it’s also known by. This is a lovely little box that allows you to connect your USB drives, pen drives or external hard drives to your network. It’s a tiny little thing that runs it’s proprietary firmware that makes the drives accessible on your network.

I soon despensed of that and whacked Debian on it. As soon as I did this, it opened up a whole host of possibilities. Now it’s running a lightweight torrent client, a samba server, a nfs server and a load of backup scripts. From a device that cost me £64 this is truly delightful. Just need to see if I can get an NFS server running and then I’ll be turning my home server off some of the time. Ooooh think of the electricity bill savings.