Uhhh.... I can go out and buy any number of devices around $50 that will all of this and much more with OpenWRT. Granted they aren't as small, but they almost all include 802.11g and several have USB2.0.
For the increased capability, and reduced price, it's a far better deal unless you absolutely need something that tiny...
Closed source is the problem? Maybe. Bad design is the problem? Definitely.
It's well known that the *nix operating system model is more secure by default, through good design. Now, having said that, any operating system (even Windows) can be made secure, but how much work does it take to overcome bad design?
I disagree. I've used smartversion on Windows for a couple years now for making versioned archives of important files, and I wish Linux had something comparable. It's liked having a portable single tar.gz of an entire cvs repository without all the headaches...
Promise makes (made?) a device called the Connectstor II that most definitely runs Linux.
You plug in two hard drives, fire it up, it configures it as either RAID 0 or RAID 1, and you use the web based interface (Apache) to configure the shares (Samba and NFS) via user accounts (/etc/passwd). If you write them and ask for it, aren't they obligated to give out source?
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Uhhh.... I can go out and buy any number of devices around $50 that will all of this and much more with OpenWRT. Granted they aren't as small, but they almost all include 802.11g and several have USB2.0. For the increased capability, and reduced price, it's a far better deal unless you absolutely need something that tiny...
Closed source is the problem? Maybe. Bad design is the problem? Definitely.
It's well known that the *nix operating system model is more secure by default, through good design. Now, having said that, any operating system (even Windows) can be made secure, but how much work does it take to overcome bad design?
I disagree. I've used smartversion on Windows for a couple years now for making versioned archives of important files, and I wish Linux had something comparable. It's liked having a portable single tar.gz of an entire cvs repository without all the headaches...
Promise makes (made?) a device called the Connectstor II that most definitely runs Linux. You plug in two hard drives, fire it up, it configures it as either RAID 0 or RAID 1, and you use the web based interface (Apache) to configure the shares (Samba and NFS) via user accounts (/etc/passwd). If you write them and ask for it, aren't they obligated to give out source?