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• Netgear Devices
  

Its linked on the right side like everything else.

nas-central.org today launched their new portal. Previously nas-central was a union of several Buffalo device specific hacking communities, but as of today the nas-central team are creating dedicated spaces for most of the major manufacturers of embedded Linux based devices, including:

• Buffalo
• D-Link
• Iomega
• Lacie
• Linksys
• Maxtor
• Synology
• QNAP
• Thecus
• Zyxel

If you own an embedded Linux based NAS by one of these manufacturers you can help the effort by clicking one of the links above and documenting your device. Also the nas-central team are happy to add support for new manufacturers, hit the nas-central forum with your requests!

Just before the maintainance we added 2 new wikis for zyxel and thecus NAS-devices.

• Thecus Devices
• Zyxel Devices

Remember that all wikis are editable anonymously, but in case we have to turn that off you only need to register once in the forum at http://forum.nas-central.org and you can login in all wikis with your forum user/pass.

Quoted from the article General_NAS_customisation_guide:

“The time when i started hacking on my first NAS (the first generation Linkstation) in 2005 there was no general article or guide how to hack it at all. The only thing that was existing at these days were reviews. Actually many NAS-hacking-communities have emerged the past years with wikis/forums/mailings lists….but still nobody ever wrote a general article about how to start hacking them, and what should be done to channel development efforts and how to start a new community. This article should cover exactly this, treat it as a source of base information and as a loose guide as all devices are different and many things have to be redone each time for each new box. As NAS are embedded devices you can use this guide for hacking your embedded router as well.

I hope others are joining me in the challenge of creating this guide“

Several subwikis were created for the NAS-scene. The plan is to submit general articles and howtos to the main wiki at NAS Central and to put all the device specific information to the subwikis. As the NSLU2-Linux community faced the problem that they hacked several devices but still had all of them on the http://nslu2-linux.org page it was confusing for many users. This should change now. Please submit hardware info to the several subwikis by clicking on the device you have and enter some information in the table.

• Buffalo Devices
• D-Link devices
• Iomega devices
• Lacie devices
• Linksys devices
• Maxtor devices
• QNAP devices
• Synology devices

Expect general vendor-independent news here on this blog in the future.