For those first hearing about this little adventure, I wanted a little box to run irssi off of, that was inexpensive, low-power, and the flexibility of a Linux box.
So I got a Linksys NSLU2 NAS, and re-flashed it with a special Embedded Linux kernel (Google for OpenSlug).
Well, it worked, but irssi was horribly hobbled (in particular no Perl support), and several attempts to rectify the problem with my own cross-compiles failed miserably. But in the end, I always had something that worked at least; Just not the way I wanted it – I didn’t have the full Linux functionality to draw from.
So, today, I’m working on placing Gentoo on the Slug, as its affectionately known. Link is [here][GentooSlug].
So far, so good. I think. honestly, its a bit hard to tell currently. I do have emerge compiling and adding vim (from within the initial chroot – I’ve not rebooted yet), which is a heck of a lot better then the LAST time I tried this (The Sager notebook; see Comp Specs in sidebar for what it is). This may actually work, and give me a copy of irssi I finally need for my purposes.
Heh. It’s another form of Cautious Optimism I suppose. ;)
Anyway, looks like its also time for another catagory, as this is the third or fourth post on the subject. Stay tuned…
–TSK
[GentooSlug]: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Linksys_NSLU2