Originally Posted by
Dread Pirate Jeff
There's some stuff online about flashing Linux onto it and using it as a small linux server for media or whatever, I may try to pick one up on the cheap to play with now.
I've been using a Pogoplug as a VPN gateway for years. I have two of them, both of which were purchased to be used as small Linux boxes (ie, I never actually used them as a Pogoplug). One cost $4.99 about 4.5 years ago, and the second ended up being free about 3 years ago (cost $5.99, but was refunded by the seller after a shipping issue).
They aren't the fastest thing out there, but for the price they do a great job.
$ uname -a
Linux debian 3.14.0-kirkwood-tld-1
#1 PREEMPT Tue Apr 1 22:54:58 PDT 2014 armv5tel GNU/Linux
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
model name : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l)
Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp
CPU implementer : 0x56
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant : 0x2
CPU part : 0x131
CPU revision : 1
Hardware : Pogoplug V4
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000