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My new Guruplug, the second generation of that plug computer Eben and I keep talking about, just made it to me.

Here are the two of them side by side. The guru plug is the smaller black one.

The Guruplug is an upgrade from the original Sheevaplug development kit in pretty much all respects. It has a more powerful processor, a much expanded array of ports, making it more capable, and is smaller in all dimensions.

The only thing that new Guruplug owners might miss from the older model is the full size SD card slot on the side. Given that this has been replaced by: 1) a microsd slot, 2) an additional USB port, which could easily take a SD card inside of a SB adapter, and 3) an eSATA (Gb/s) cable for connecting external hard drives at their native speeds, I don’t think many people will actually miss the old SD slot.

Now Martin just needs to get his so he can teach the Debian installer about the new hardware, and we’ll be able to put it through some paces.

I’ll be spending the meantime reading up on how to shape local network traffic so I can replace my router with my new Guruplug.