Fujitsu has abandoned customers of its NAS servers a long time ago. The Fujitsu Celvin NAS lines are very similar to QNAP. I would like to liberate the hardware and get a handle on it with a somewhat modern platform. It’s common to install software of the QNAP ts-219 on Celvin q700 devices because QNAP continued supporting their firmware for 6 years longer than Fujitsu. But that’s still proprietary. In the end free software is ideal.
There are some articles on putting Debian 10 on these old NAS devices -- and no later than that because the Debian 11 kernel exceeds the 16mb capacity of the (apparently hardwired) SD card.
I noticed Devuan was named as being good for low memory hardware (512mb in my case). Devuan also appears to support armel (unlike antiX). So I would expect Devuan to be better than the normal stock Debian. Is that sensible? Why are there no articles of people installing Devuan on their NAS devices?
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waspentalive@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
Could you restore the original NAS software if installing Devuan failed or did not work as well? If you can, I don't see a reason not to try it. Your post is 30 days old at this point - did you try it? did it work?