The possibilities are endless after you install optware on your machine.
Most credit goes to the nslu2 team for making all these programs available to us.

I've already done this before for 2 other devices (Western Digital Worldbook & DD-WRT).
This is WiP (Work in Progress) and will probably need to tinker some little things, but if you know what you're doing you should be able to install programs yourself

Besides the full linux tools I have prepared the startup for twonky & transmission but in reality the possibilities are endless

TODO:
- change the size of part3 which is now only 159 MB
- find out how current services are stopped and hook in there to stop optware services
- program keys for midnight commander
- many other little things

Although enough needs/can be done... Norton Commander fans can now run Midnight Commander on the box



ssh access is now enabled so you now can also use scp (or winscp)
If anyone needs a virtual hosting webserver with php... just let me know....

Can you explain a little bit more what you can do with optware ?

I installed it so far ?

You have a big collection of software which you can install. ipkg-opt list gives you a list of all the packages with a short description. These are pre-compiled by the nslu2-team for many platforms.

popular packages are:

perl - multiplatform program language
python - multiplatform program language
nzbhella - a newsgroup reader which pars and unrars (can be controlled using a daemon on windows)
transmission - most popular bittorrent client can be controlled using a webif and a daemon
twonky - uPnP-server for exposing and streaming media
vlc - streaming server
lighttpd - webserver
mysql - sqlserver

many many more..... (for which additional space is needed)

I autostart transmission and twonky.

transmission http://playonhd:9091/transmission/web/
twonky http://playonhd:9000

with the script "service" you can control these services.

thnx will test that

Nice work frater.
This is totally awsome!!!

I reformated my playon because i *messed* up something hehe

Is there also a good way to deinstall

i tried to remove all folders en then no more telnet connection possible..

Only a full format partion gone etc i was able to acces my playon again


(No foul language, please Kraakie, you know this. ;P Chris)

Just upgrade the firmware and do an "rm -r /tmp/hdd/root/opt" and everything is like before....

OK thnx problem was that after the optware install i logon to telnet en it logins in to the home dir of optware

after removing the optware dir there was no homedir so the telnet session directly closes

I think there's a misunderstanding here....
If you upgrade the firmware (again even if you already have that firmware) your ACRyan reboots and comes back as an almost plain vanilla ACRyan.

You only need to remove the opt folder in the ext3 partition to free some space. That directory is not your homedir anymore.....