Hardware: TonidoPlug

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Use this guide.

External

• 1 USB 2.0 Port
• 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port
• Regular Power cable (Not a brick)
• Power and Activity LEDs
• 512MB RAM
• 512MB NAND
• Marvell Sheeva CPU, 1.2GHz
• Internal UART and JTAG ports (see below)

Default Operating System

• Ubuntu 9.04
• Tonido installed in /root/app
• Uses apt-get to install custom software
• List of default installed packages
• Default u-Boot variables

Major Features

• Install whatever you need using apt-get
• Ability to boot from USB drive just by extracting a tar.gz to it (boot PlugBox with a shiny new kernel this way)
• Ability to reflash to factory default by making a reflash USB drive
• Tonido software - Calendar, Shared Files, Shared Photos, User Upload/Download Permissions, Torrent application, Personal Blog
• Firefox extensions to interact with TonidoPlug
• Not connected to an external service (all run from your plug)
• Samba/DLNA/X Box 360 streaming out-of-box

Let-Downs

• Have to forward ports if UPnP doesn't work on your router (port 10001) - or use the Relay service (easiest)
• Not as many marketing dollars as Pogoplug (if that counts)
• No HFS support as standard, unlike pogo

Note

• The GuruPlug JTAG board turns the TonidoPlug into a SheevaPlug (use the SheevaPlug Installer to unbrick or flash an OS to NAND)