Solutions like puppy ultimately benefit the vendors of the hardware by providing free publicity and increasing the sales of their hardware. Requests to Topfield for donation or loan of development hardware go unanswered. I am now asking the community to pitch in and donate towards the cause. This is entirely optional and the donation does not have to be large.
The development of puppy has not halted. The following items are on my list of things to do next:
- Make puppy work with kernel 2.6 based Linux distributions.
- Diskless version - no need for external disk or USB flash, transfer directly to a networked PC.
- Wireless version - no cables to worry about.
- Web interface - configure everything using your browser.
- Standalone flash image - just flash and use, no need to perform any complex installation steps.
So, send some money or even just a message of encouragement - contact details are just to the left.
2 comments:
Hello Peter,
I own a Topfield TF5000 and just got my NSLU2. I tried your software for a short time and was impressed. Your intention to make a wireless version is even better! I would like to have a minimal wireless version where the wireless connector is an USB stick, so there is no need for a second power supply. Do you think this is possible?
Best regards,
Juergen
Hi Peter - thanks for puppy. Its my permanent solution for transferring files from my Topfield to my workstation.
In your post you say your plans include:
"Diskless version - no need for external disk or USB flash"
This is surprising to me as I haven't used it any other way. I simply installed unslung, busybox and puppy and setup my samba mounts and run puppy from those directories. Its been working sweetly ever since. I don't have and never have had an external drive or USB memory stick attached to the NSLU2.
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