OpenMediaVault: a distribution for NAS boxes
OpenMediaVault: a distribution for NAS boxes
[Distributions] Posted Jan 2, 2015 22:44 UTC (Fri) by corbet
The Linux community has no shortage of general-purpose distributions that can be made to serve almost any need. But many Linux deployments are not on general-purpose machines; often the owner has a more specific objective in mind. One such objective is to put together a network-attached storage (NAS) box. A general-purpose distribution can easily be used in such a setting, but there are also several specialized distributions that make the task easier. This article, the first in a series, will look at OpenMediaVault, a Debian-based NAS-oriented distribution.