Great post. I've got an old WD MyBook lying around, I should try and get some use out of the thing. You don't have to hack it too much in order to get a 'full'

Great post. I've got an old WD MyBook lying around, I should try and get some use out of the thing. You don't have to hack it too much in order to get a 'full' linux on there. You can enable SSH access on the system via the web UI. From there, you can set up a simple packaging system to install most other common binaries (and a functioning build environment to add anything else) Take a look at: http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/optware http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/optware for instructions.