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foonas-em 0.1.0-r2 has been released bringing many new features and support for various new platforms. With this move comes a migration from glibc to uclibc to free up space for new features which include JFS, USB storage, Busybox 1.10.1, partial German and Spanish localisations and VFAT support for all platforms.

We are pleased to announce support for various Marvell Orion based devices following the support for these platforms added into Linux 2.6.25 and include 2.6.25.1 in this release for the following Orion based machines:

• Kurobox Pro
• Buffalo Linkstation Pro (and variants)
• QNAP TS-209

Visit the foonas wiki for more information on the features for your platform, installation information and download details. Thanks to everyone involved in this release!

The foonas team are proud to announce the first stable release of foonas-em (and indeed the first official release from foonas.org) for PowerPC based Linkstation and Kurobox NAS devices. The foonas-em firmware for these platforms replaces existing vendor and third party firmwares and includes the following features no other in flash firmware provides:

• Linux 2.6.23.12 in flash
• XFS support and well as ext2 and ext3
• Busybox 1.8.2 with a reasonable set of commands
• vsftpd
• Support for editing u-boot configuration from Linux
• Browser based installation of supported OS (currently Gentoo and foonas)

More information on foonas-em can be found via the main foonas portal. Support for other devices is in progress, updates for these will appear as soon as various platform specific issues have been worked out. We hope you enjoy the improvements in this new firmware. Hit the comments and let us know what you think and happy new year from foonas!