12 July 2004 Jim Buzbee finds the Telnet exploit. 31 July 2004 nslu2-linux mailing list is created. 5 Aug 2004 Tom’s Hardware article published. Mailing list has 13 members. 10 Aug 2004 First successfully modified image. 11 Aug 2004 Serial port and Redboot TFTP. “Unslung” concept based on /linuxrc. Jim’s journal links to the mailing list. 15 Aug 2004 iTunes server ported. 16 Aug 2004 Busybox, dropbear and wget ported. Donations requested ($240 on first day). 17 Aug 2004 My first slug arrives in the post. 18 Aug 2004 Slug sacrificed to find JTAG traces. Jim’s journal page is slashdotted, and the mailing list feels the effect. 19 Aug 2004 Fedora Core 2 ported, not taken up. NFS working. nslu2-linux.org domain registered. 22 Aug 2004 nslu2-general mailing list created. 24 Aug 2004 First boot from external hard disk. Serial port mod published. 25 Aug 2005 Linksys releases kernel source. 30 Aug 2005 Redboot telnet access found. Redboot upgrade mode found. 31 Aug 2004 700 members and 1000 list emails.