ReadyNAS Duo v2: apt-get and free P2P clients?

mdgm wrote:
a) apt-get is pre-installed on x86 and ARM, that is it's included in the firmware. Years ago Sparc didn't have SSH available as an option so apt-get wasn't and still isn't included in the firmware for Sparc. You can of course alternatively also use wget to download a debian package and install it using dpkg

So it seems that I'm out of luck, unless I go full throttle to try and do this for the ARM-based v2... Do you know of any optware porting efforts for the v2 platform, or something similar in nature?

b) The add-on installer isn't free. As for Transmission itself it would be donate-ware to the developers of the Transmission source code. If you look at the Genie App store which is the way things are going on the v2, you'll find the Transmission Genie App there is developed by super-poussin. If you want to try to install stuff manually yourself but you'd need to do the work to make sure it works. When you weigh up your time versus paying for the Genie App I reckon it'd be much cheaper to buy the app.

Nah, I prefer tinkering tbh :) On the MSS II, I had to install optware of course, but that was not a big fuss considering the high quality of howto's around. I'd be willing to install (from command line that is), test things, and even do reports about bugs/issues to the developer. I never shell out cash for stuff like that. I offer my work in return. Lots of it to be precise.

Had my eyes on this or the qnap 212. I was won over due to the faster cpu and the extremely rugged looks of the v2. But until I figure a way to put free software on this thing, I won't be able to push away this feeling of making a poor decision... And, you know, the only thing I'd like to have is basically rtorrent. Without any interface, just plain old CLI rtorrent.