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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Depends what you want to spend and how much you want to do with it.

    If you’ve got the technical ability and interest, look into building one yourself (they’re just computers, just usually with a lot of storage) and running FreeNAS or UnRAID as the OS.

    If you want a bit more of a plug and play solution, both Synology and QNAP are good brands. I’d also recommend over-provisioning the NAS in terms of bays. Sure 2 drives might be fine today, but it’s nice to have room for expansion down the line.

    Whatever you choose, you’ll be able to run nextcloud and similar

    (Also your English is great, don’t sweat it!)





  • Just as the MiSTer has started putting (sorta) 486s back in people’s hands, although if the newly required instructions aren’t too complicated, I suppose someone could conceivably add them to the core.

    I guess one unknown for me is how the capability detection of the kernel works and if it works on instruction detection or if it determines it via CPUID.

    A big also is that I’ve not yet tried to run Linux on mine yet so I’m not even sure it’s possible with a modern kernel anyway. I think I remember seeing someone got an old version of redhat or Debian working