1/ Who are we?
Debonaras (http://www.debonaras.org - Debian On NAS And Routers And Stuff) is a group of Linux developers, most of whom come from the NSLU2-Linux project (http://www.nslu2-linux.org), and who have created the beginnings (2500+ packages uploaded so far to http://ftp.debonaras.org/debian/) of an armeb port of Debian targeted at consumer devices (such as the Linksys NSLU2 or Synology DS101) with large attached storage (e.g. the ability to attach a USB hard disk). The first target device is the Linksys NSLU2, and we have had big-endian arm Debian running on that device for about a month now.
2/ What is the potential user base for an armeb port of Debian?
The NSLU2-Linux project has over 4300 subscribers on the mailing list, attracts over 30000 hits on the http://www.nslu2-linux.org website per day, has provided over 12000 custom firmware downloads in the last three months, and manages two package download systems (one for the vendor-firmware-compatible 2.4 kernel custom firmware, and the other for the OpenEmbedded-based 2.6 kernel custom firmware) which serve up 400Gb/month of package downloads from four mirrors across the world). Every one of those 12000 custom firmware downloads is a potential user of an armeb Debian port, just for the single NSLU2 device.
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