Linux-Based SLUG Spawns Highly Hackable NAS | Linux Today

Linux-Based SLUG Spawns Highly Hackable NAS

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 8, 2007

“Cisco’s consumer products division is shipping a successor to
the Linux-based NSLU2 (aka ‘SLUG’) consumer NAS (network-attached
storage) appliance, one of the most-hacked devices ever. The NAS200
has room for two internal SATA drives, supports FAT32-formatted
external USB 2.0 drives, and comes with UPnP media-sharing
software.

“As delivered out of the box, the NAS200 appears to be a very
simple consumer device aimed at Windows PC users, or at least users
with SMB-based networks…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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