Sony announced a Linux-based wireless portable file server [LWN.net]

From:		"Maya Tamiya" <lwn@changelog.net>
To:		lwn@lwn.net
Subject:		[News] Sony announced a Linux-based wireless portable file server
Date:		Wed, 05 Feb 2003 00:50:51 +0900
Cc:		"Maya Tamiya" <lwn@changelog.net>

Hi, 
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Sony announced a Linux-based wireless portable file server
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Sony announced FSV-PGX1, a wireless portable (3.27 x 1.22 x 6.1
inches, 0.86 lb) file server based on Linux 2.4.20 with ext3, which
supports CIFS/SMB, NFS and ftp via IEEE 802.11b.


http://www.sony.jp/CorporateCruise/Press/200302/03-0204/ (in Japanese)

http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/PGX/ (in Japanese)

regards,
maya
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Thanks,
Maya Tamiya <lwn@changelog.net>

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Sony announced a Linux-based wireless portable file server

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Weight is about 390g, with 20GB hard disk and wireless LAN feature installed, the portable file server is FSV-PGX1. It can access from the wireless LAN correspondence PC, and client & server environment can be built immediately at any time. For example, a RESUPEPA meeting will be realized if a data file is shared also in an environment without a network with each one of PCs. A mass file is also carried, and it can go and come back to a company and a house easily. Moreover, from now on, data distribution while it is all over a town is also possible. It is a going-out place and is a house in office. It is a portable server's birth which can make the community of information exchange in the place which is now.