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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...
Yes updating it would have some benefits.
Not sure how much code would have to be rewritten as a lot of it would be proprietary. They could possible port some old stuff for the newer distro. Will have to wait and see what they do. If it was easy it would have been done long ago.
Yes so long as you stay away from the flash, BIOS etc. you should hopefully be fine. Worst case should be needing to do a factory default to wipe the disks and start afresh. I don't think the flash can be mounted easily when the NAS is booted anyway.
NetGear doesn't want to fill the flash and needs to leave room for future growth. Also need to keep compatibility with older units (I guess they probably have 128MB flash too but I'm not sure). Having apps available as add-ons under Add-ons > Available downloaded and installed on demand is a good way to do it.
Not sure how much code would have to be rewritten as a lot of it would be proprietary. They could possible port some old stuff for the newer distro. Will have to wait and see what they do. If it was easy it would have been done long ago.
Yes so long as you stay away from the flash, BIOS etc. you should hopefully be fine. Worst case should be needing to do a factory default to wipe the disks and start afresh. I don't think the flash can be mounted easily when the NAS is booted anyway.
NetGear doesn't want to fill the flash and needs to leave room for future growth. Also need to keep compatibility with older units (I guess they probably have 128MB flash too but I'm not sure). Having apps available as add-ons under Add-ons > Available downloaded and installed on demand is a good way to do it.
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