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Ultra and Debian base
Hi. New owner of a Ultra 6 as of 1 month ago. Overall very pleased with the unit, especially as it was on a 40% off sale. Initially a bit bummed out that I didn't get the Pro due to faster CPU and...
NetGear does maintain a certain amount of stuff in a custom apt-get repository referenced in /etc/apt/sources.list if you like. If you are going to install stuff yourself you should backup your data very regularly (you should backup your data regularly anyway) as if you break stuff NetGear may refuse to help fix the problem.
An apt-get upgrade would break stuff. There are a number of custom scripts used by the ReadyNAS and the web-admin interface is reliant on some old stuff. There are some conflicts which prevent a distribution upgrade at this time. Hopefully these will be sorted out. NetGear does a thorough QA test of each firmware update before release.
It would be nice to see a major update that updates to a newer Debian distribution etc. However with the customisations NetGear has made it tends to be easier to backport stuff rather than rewrite a huge amount of code.
The new ARM (Duo/NV+ v2) devices are on Debian Squeeze and have a new web-admin interface. I hope they port this web interface to the x86 devices (last I've heard is still no ETA) and update the Debian distribution (possibly at the same time) but we'll have to wait and see what they do.
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An apt-get upgrade would break stuff. There are a number of custom scripts used by the ReadyNAS and the web-admin interface is reliant on some old stuff. There are some conflicts which prevent a distribution upgrade at this time. Hopefully these will be sorted out. NetGear does a thorough QA test of each firmware update before release.
It would be nice to see a major update that updates to a newer Debian distribution etc. However with the customisations NetGear has made it tends to be easier to backport stuff rather than rewrite a huge amount of code.
The new ARM (Duo/NV+ v2) devices are on Debian Squeeze and have a new web-admin interface. I hope they port this web interface to the x86 devices (last I've heard is still no ETA) and update the Debian distribution (possibly at the same time) but we'll have to wait and see what they do.
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