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AntiVirus No Longer Updating
Since 30th September, I have been getting an email from my RN214 advising me that the "Antivirus scanner definition file update failed due to download failure. Check your Internet connection." I ...
Netgear no longer cares about its users, which seems self evident, given their lack of response or assistance.
All ReadyNAS products are end-of-life, and AFAIK there are no resources working on ReadyNAS software anymore.
So they have no one left who can respond.
Is there any chance that someone can get Netgear to open-source their code
That has been asked before, but Netgear has been silent on the topic.
FWIW, IMO for this path to work there would need to be a competent community team managing the open source. As far as I can tell, there isn't enough interest in the community to pull that off.
While the hardware is robust, it isn't that competitive. It's fine for SATA storage, but no NVME support and the processors are aging (8+ years old at this point). No GPUs are another issue, especially for Plex and similar media server apps that support transcoding.
Are any of the original Infrant Jedi Knights around? They may have some corporate knowledge and influence left.
Are any of the original Infrant Jedi Knights around?
Most disappeared 10+ years ago. I think Chirpa was probably the last one - he hung around the forum for about 3 years after he left Netgear in 2012. While not an original Jedi, mdgm was active as a customer long before he joined Netgear in 2014. He left in 2018.
Of course some might still be at Netgear, just using different forum handles (or not posting at all).
Third party app developers and most others in the community with linux development experience are also long gone. WhoCares (who hosted https://rnxtras.com/ for a long time) started a github back in 2023 to work on running ReadyNAS on Alpine Linux ( https://github.com/RustyDust/readynas-alpine ) But it doesn't look like that went very far.
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