Install custom OS

WhoCares? wrote:
First off, there are proprietary kernel drivers in use on the ReadyNAS. Second, since the ReadyNAS firmware already is based on Debian (etch) I don't see the benefit of installing a standard Debian system instead of tweaking the ReadyNAS to do things the way you want it to. You may gain some comfort but you'll lose a lot of functionality, namely X-Raid. -Stefan

Thanks for your reply.

I'm guessing the drivers are for the RAID-card? Anything else/more?
If there is a driver for Linux that gives me regular RAID, I'm fine with that. I don't think I will be using X-Raid anyway.

Well for starters, it runs a pretty outdated version of Debian, so installing anything new becomes a lot of work. Also I really don't like how RAIDiator is just all over the place, and doesn't follow any normal Debian conventions. I can't even restart Apache with the existing init-script, and all the config files are spread out in places where they simply don't belong. I really don't want to bash the product, as I do think most highly of it, but things like this puts me down. I just don't feel it provides any real improvement over a normal Linux-distro.

But maybe it is safe to dist-upgrade to latest version of Debian?
Maybe I can even make RAIDiator less obnoxious?