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Linux Distro For Linksys WRT54G

Posted by timothy on from the why-yes-it-does-run-linux dept.

scubacuda writes "Here is a tiny Linux distro for the Linksys wrt54g (d/l the distro here). In just a few seconds, you can give your access point's ramdisk syslog, telnetd, httpd (with cgi-bin support), vi, snort, mount, insmod, rmmod, top, grep, etc." Interesting -- "The script installs strictly to the ram disk of the box. No permanent changes are made. If you mess something up, power-cycle it."

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  1. Take that emacs zealots! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This comes with vi and NOT emacs, as 95% of all distributions don't come with emacs!

    1. Re:Take that emacs zealots! by ville · · Score: 5, Funny

      And emacs takes up 95% of those distros that come with it.

      //ville

    2. Re:Take that emacs zealots! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Thats because people CHOOSE to install emacs, but no one in there right mind would install vi so Vi Zealots force it on them ;-)

    3. Re:Take that emacs zealots! by Bodrius · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's because Emacs is at heart an Operating System, not an application.

      I'm patiently waiting for the Emacs distro that runs Linux in a VM.

      --
      Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4, everything else follows...
    4. Re:Take that emacs zealots! by Dog+and+Pony · · Score: 1, Funny

      Gotta wonder what those other 5% are there for...

    5. Re:Take that emacs zealots! by wik · · Score: 4, Funny

      Emacs documentation.

      --
      / \
      \ / ASCII ribbon campaign for peace
      x
      / \
  2. Priorities are all wrong by JPelzer · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, this Linksys has only been out for like a few weeks or something, and they've got a linux distro for it... Yet my Toastmaster 5000xdr Quad-port (with FG-200R bagel attachment) STILL isn't supported!

    I mean, the linksys probably works fine out-of-box... But my Toastmaster STILL can't check with my Mr.Refrigeration Model XII to see if I'm out of butter and order more online. Sheesh, technology SUCKS!

    1. Re:Priorities are all wrong by JPelzer · · Score: 5, Funny

      > OK, this Linksys has only been out for like a few
      > weeks or something, and they've got a linux distro
      > for it... Yet my Toastmaster 5000xdr Quad-port
      > (with FG-200R bagel attachment) STILL isn't
      > supported!

      OK, to reply to those that say I should roll my own distro for my Toastmaster, I have been working on a little something. Currently, there is no support for the bagel attachment, and it has some trouble with the more exotic breads (ie, non-white bread). And it occasionally pops them out at dangerous velocities. And you have to first separate the bread and crust using my 'decrust.sh' script, and reassemble them after toasting using 'recrust.sh'.

      But otherwise, it's coming along nicely. I did have ONE little bug where instead of ordering more bread, it ordered an industrial bread-machine and hired a staff of 12 to run it. They all seemed so disappointed when I told them they were only hired because of a bug. But I'm sure they get that a lot.

      So check it out, gnutoast.org... I think it's the future of toasting, possibly even the future of grilling too.

  3. Crap... by Kedisar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to post "But Does it RUN LINUX!?" but then I RTFA. Grr....

    1. Re:Crap... by Tony.Tang · · Score: 5, Funny

      You RTFA? You must be new here... ;)

  4. Re:More constrained by memory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    In my day, laddie, we had 64kB of ram and 1 MHz. And we liked it! Three miles in the snow we walked, every day, to the terminal... barefoot!

    More seriously, you can do a hell of a lot with 16MByte of RAM and 125MHz. My old Amiga was happily connected to the internet for years with less than that.

    Stick FORTH on any box and (assuming you know FORTH, of course), you can make most any computer jump through hoops, devoid of the efficiency problems that bloated tarbaby languages like C++ introduce.

  5. Re:More constrained by memory by jd142 · · Score: 4, Funny

    In my day, laddie, we had 64kB of ram and 1 MHz. And we liked it! Three miles in the snow we walked, every day, to the terminal... barefoot!

    Up hill both ways, too!

  6. Re:My review: by DrDebug · · Score: 2, Funny

    So in your view, Linux sucks. In most of the rest of the world's view, MicroSoft sucks.

    Methinks you are obviously just another MicroSoft plant, sowing FUD. Imagine-- the 'x' in Linux makes it communistic. I suppose the same goes for Unix, and maybe even Mac OS X?

    Jeesh!

  7. I can't believe nobody has said it... by novarese · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's not a SINGLE "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these" comment yet? What the hell is going on here???