Re: [Sheflug] GPL software ?

[Marcus Hanwell <linux [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 03:15, Alan Dawson wrote:
> and done a strings on the firmware grepping for 'linux' 
>  
> aland [at] butter:~/downloads/draytek> strings V2K6K250.RST | grep linux 
> linux%@) 
> linux 
>  
> Does this mean its running Linux ( not surprising really )?  Can I work out 
> which kernel?  
>  
I had never thought of doing that on the firmware, but the command line
certainly behaves more like a Unix in there - limited though it is. A
lot of devices seem to use embedded Linux kernels - custom made for the
device often.

I have this router too - and it does work pretty well. I would love to
hear any more people might have to say on how one might figure out if it
is running Linux. If it is then I would imagine it to be a highly
customised kernel with many things cut out of it...

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