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Dec 28, 2015ReadyNas NV+ Development > Questions (Regarding: Frontview / Device Source Code)
Hey the Netgear Commmunity I would like to do some development on the ReadyNas NV+ V1 like if EOL and old but still functinal. Although there is still some bug fixes firmwares coming out, i don...
mdgm-ntgr
Dec 28, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
These are very old devices now.
The GPL includes the kernel and other open source software that we use. If you want GPL code used in add-ons you should contact the add-on developer.
There are some practical limitations that would mean building your own OS for the NV+ is not worth even trying.
The hardware is very old and slow, and compiling for it takes a long time.
Retired_Member
Dec 28, 2015
mdgm wrote:These are very old devices now.
The GPL includes the kernel and other open source software that we use. If you want GPL code used in add-ons you should contact the add-on developer.
There are some practical limitations that would mean building your own OS for the NV+ is not worth even trying.
The hardware is very old and slow, and compiling for it takes a long time.
true facts, they are for sure old, i have one laying here and been fooling aroud with it at the moment, thought would be fun to hack into it.
On a other note is there a way to do apt-get upgrade without it braking frontview and ssh connection? (tried a few time and shares were still accessible over the network, but had to reset it because of the issues above.
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