slug1 is alive...

I've been meaning to play with linux a lot more than I actually have in the past 2-3 years. One of the main reasons was that I didn't want to have the huge overhead of leaving a noisy machine that sucked lots of energy running somewhere in my house all the time.

A colleague of mine is building a new robot based on the Linksys NSLU (a network storage device that can be made to run linux). I got him to buy me one at the same time.

Anyway - got the thing on wednesday and only really got to play with it tonight. Was really easy to flash the thing and now i have a 133Mhz linux machine with 32mb ram and a 64mb usb key stuck into the back of it. it's like the early '90s all over again!

here's some technical details.
root@slug1:/etc/network# uname -a
Linux slug1 2.6.12.2 #1 Tue Sep 27 20:21:18 CDT 2005 armv5teb unknown

root@slug1:/etc/network# cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor       : XScale-IXP42x Family rev 1 (v5b)
BogoMIPS        : 131.48
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult edsp
CPU implementer : 0x69
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0x41f
CPU revision    : 1
Cache type      : undefined 5
Cache clean     : undefined 5
Cache lockdown  : undefined 5
Cache format    : Harvard
I size          : 32768
I assoc         : 32
I line length   : 32
I sets          : 32
D size          : 32768
D assoc         : 32
D line length   : 32
D sets          : 32

Hardware        : Linksys NSLU2
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 0000000000000000


root@slug1:/etc/network# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        30660 kB
MemFree:         21772 kB
Buffers:             0 kB
Cached:           4128 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:           3712 kB
Inactive:         1564 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:        30660 kB
LowFree:         21772 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
Dirty:               0 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:           2384 kB
Slab:             1916 kB
CommitLimit:     15328 kB
Committed_AS:     3736 kB
PageTables:        128 kB
VmallocTotal:   991232 kB
VmallocUsed:     16760 kB
VmallocChunk:   974328 kB

root@slug1:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1                 6.4M      5.8M    564.0k  91% /initrd
/dev/sda1                60.4M     12.3M     45.0M  21% /
tmpfs                    15.0M     28.0k     14.9M   0% /media/ram


you can check out the linux project over at http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

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