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NSLU2 packages

NSLU2 packages

Posted Feb 3, 2006 11:23 UTC (Fri) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048)
In reply to: The GNOME NetworkManager Applet by carcassonne
Parent article: The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

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 :-)


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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 ;-)

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