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From: D.M. Procida on 30 Jun 2005 05:33
Finally got my hands on one yesterday.

It looks like their single-disk d2 models, not sure how they get it all
in there. I'd have a look, but there's an irritating warranty sticker
over one of the screws.

It turns out it's running Yellow Dog Linux! Though, weirdly, today I
can't actually see anywhere the page where it mentioned Yellow Dog -
maybe I imagined it. It reports 59MB RAM, 128MB VM.

It comes formatted as FAT32, but that can be changed to a more
salubrious ext3.

I haven't yet been able to log in with a shell, though it must be
possible, and there seems to be no way to manually administer the
firmware update process (I assume there must be one).

A more serious limitation for the average user is the absence of a way
to set up different shared volumes - you can create users, but not
shared volumes.

<http://www.macfaq.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/NetworkStorageDevices>

Daniele
--
Apple Juice Ltd
Chapter Arts Centre
Market Road www.apple-juice.co.uk
Cardiff CF5 1QE 029 2019 0140
From: Paul Russell on 30 Jun 2005 07:27
D.M. Procida wrote:

> Finally got my hands on one yesterday.
>
> It looks like their single-disk d2 models, not sure how they get it all
> in there. I'd have a look, but there's an irritating warranty sticker
> over one of the screws.
>
> It turns out it's running Yellow Dog Linux! Though, weirdly, today I
> can't actually see anywhere the page where it mentioned Yellow Dog -
> maybe I imagined it. It reports 59MB RAM, 128MB VM.
>
> It comes formatted as FAT32, but that can be changed to a more
> salubrious ext3.
>
> I haven't yet been able to log in with a shell, though it must be
> possible, and there seems to be no way to manually administer the
> firmware update process (I assume there must be one).
>
> A more serious limitation for the average user is the absence of a way
> to set up different shared volumes - you can create users, but not
> shared volumes.
>
> <http://www.macfaq.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/NetworkStorageDevices>
>

I was looking at those a whle back and was quite tempted but for the
fact that they only have 100M Ethernet. If they had gigabit Ethernet I'd
probably have bought one.

Apparently their larger Ethernet drivers use Windows XP rather than YDL
(ick !), so I definitely wouldn't get one of those, but the smaller ones
with YDL seem like they would be fun to play with.

Paul
From: Richard Tobin on 30 Jun 2005 07:26
In article <1gyyqug.1a7mebqu0fi3sN%real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk>,
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:

>It turns out it's running Yellow Dog Linux!

Any idea what processor it has?

-- Richard
From: D.M. Procida on 30 Jun 2005 08:09
Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> >It turns out it's running Yellow Dog Linux!
>
> Any idea what processor it has?

If it is YDL it will be some sort of PPC, but now I doubt that I saw it,
since I can't find it anywhere...

Daniele
--
Apple Juice Ltd
Chapter Arts Centre
Market Road www.apple-juice.co.uk
Cardiff CF5 1QE 029 2019 0140
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