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The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

Posted Jan 29, 2006 5:25 UTC (Sun) by obobo (guest, #684)
In reply to: The GNOME NetworkManager Applet by carcassonne
Parent article: The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

At least some Linksys routers rely on IE-only JScript for their web configuration pages. Yes, its kinda sad that a router that is running Linux requires a Windows box to admin it.

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The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

Posted Jan 29, 2006 11:55 UTC (Sun) by carcassonne (guest, #31569) [Link]

Moreover for large-enough devices that can host a simple http server. There's no need then to have a Windows/IE-only path to configuration.

At least the Linksys WRT54GS I bought last year has a direct way to configure it through the web pages it serves and now I can say that it's the same for the Linksys network storage unit NSLU2 I bought last week.

Since both of these devices runs Linux, it is no surprise that both has Linux alternatives (and many alternate packages to run) one can use. For the NSLU2 there's unslung/OpenSlug (with some 6697 packages available ! - I still think they made a typo with the number and/or that there's a catch somewhere) and for the WRT54GS there's at least OpenWRT.

Both of these adds to the devices quite a few possibilities and uses. Nice little under-$100 projects for sure, that also can be useful for corporate environments.

NSLU2 packages

Posted Feb 3, 2006 11:23 UTC (Fri) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048) [Link]

Certainly it depends on the enabled package feeds, but just now I typed "ipkg list | wc" on my beloved NSLU2 running OpenSlug, and got 5529 lines.

So the 6697 figure is not that wrong, it certainly depends on the feeds you use.

And btw, I strongly recommend the NSLU2 if you need a cheap and versatile server at home, which will not be noticed on your electricity bill even if you keep it on line 24/7 :-)

NSLU2 packages

Posted Feb 4, 2006 2:43 UTC (Sat) by carcassonne (guest, #31569) [Link]

To be fair, I think the list should boil down to:

ipkg list | grep -v locale | grep -v unicore | wc -l

For instance, I've installed Perl quite a few times (Perl standard distribution) and there were none of these unicore single packages. In fact, CPAN turns out almost nothing on 'unicore'. Why are all those little packages present under Perl in the ipkg list for the NSLU2, I don't know. Maybe this has to do with building for this type of CPU architecture.

Still, there's a lot of packages available. Next, I'll try emacs ;-)