SignedAdam

Well I believe you are wrong, the hexos team will have a lot of control over the inner workings of the operating system, they will have a list of software features that are on by default that are sucking up all the resources, they might even have more control than truenas, they could even give us control over these features/ services and allow us to turn them on and off under some type of advanced subsection. truenas will be under an expectation from their community, while hexos are just starting up, I have already asked truenas to lower the requirements and I got the default excuse “ ZFS is making the requirements so high “

Being sarcastic and assuming someones knowledge online are signs of maturity? what people have to hand, will, and is always going to be the best option for them. Going out and spending money on new hardware, is always going to be the last option. you seem to be recommending people do things backwards, buy new hardware rather than use what they have to hand… like I explained, the more devices hexos can support = more income for the developers. Supporting new features shouldn’t come before making the user base larger, having a larger audience should be this projects 1st goal, supporting as many devices as they can.

I do not mind giving ZFS a miss, and using raid instead, raid does not have such high requirements. you should not assume what you do not know! The best part is no part, if I can get away with what I have on hand, then that is the best part, FYI I do not need to use google or eBay to work that out

Who are you to decide what’s worth the developers time and not? by adding more devices to this project, they add more customers, more customers = more investment in to the project, I’d say that’s definitely worth the developers time and that = you are WRONG!

Can you guys do me a favour and explain to this douche king why we want these old devices to function on hexos

1) You guys do know you don’t have to use Zfs! It’s a nice to have but not necessary! Zfs uses lots of resources… just use raid, 0 or 1 and so on! 2) you can change the default boot device in the bios, you don’t have to use software to make the readynas hardware boot a drive… on my readynas there’s a micro usb port at the back, this allows you to connect to the nas by usb and uses a terminal window to view (a screen like interface) that even passes through keyboard, it’s called uart serial… learn how to do it here

You should see some of the comments I’m getting about how a device with ddr4 deserves to not be supported ?

I dislike the laziness excuse, if they are here to make a difference and a operating system for us all, then that is what they should do, it’s already been made clear most of the work has been done by another team. so I see no excuses concerning I’m now invested in this project

But it’s not a niche and being sarcastic won’t make you’re response any more correct than my request? I dunno why people feel the need to put other people’s suggestions to bed, if you have nothing positive to say, say nothing at all 👍🏻 it is based off truenas, that much is true 🤣 and they have made it very clear, they aren’t lowing the minimum requirements? however back in the day when truenas was at the beginning of development, the minimum requirements were much lower. lots of big and small networking manufacturers, have made network attached storage devices (NAS products) most of these devices have seen support dropped from these big brands, netgear for example, so customers such as my self need a new operating system, in order to keep our devices secure online and up to date, so they can support the latest applications, some will try and argue this is a niche market! however you will be surprised by how many of these devices are still out there! think of windows xp, then windows 7 then 10 now 11 and how Microsoft force people to buy new hardware. my device, the readynas 422 isn’t that old supporting DDR4 which is just one generation behind in the DDR standard, by supporting these low end devices you gain users and free recommendations, you’d have to be extremely narrowminded and stubborn to ignore the market I am apart of! Yes it has a small amount of on board ram, which can not be swapped but it is still very functional, all the developers need to do is switch off the unnecessary services that will be running in the background, I’m sure none of you have probably bothered to look in service with in windows but I have and there’s a lot of stuff that can be turned off because it’s pointless! with that I rest my case!

8GB is to high requirement, even for today! Think of all the big NAS manufacturers dropping support for there embedded devices, this could replace that

I’d like to run hexos on a device which has 2GB of RAM, with proxmox I can have home assistant running, Plex and even a web server, on one device no nodes, I see no reason as to why hexos couldn’t do it. Just turn some of the extra software features off that people don’t need on these devices.

Yes I’d like to have the ability 👍🏻

I’d like to see the initial setup have uart / serial communication protocol support this can be handy for devices with out displays or large servers most of the time it’s only initial setup that needs this support “then after it doesn’t”

Allow the ability to use a different kernel so that more hardware can be supported

I currently have a netgear readynas 422 Model: RN422 hardware : Intel Atom® C3338 2 GB DDR4 2 sata bays, 1 internal sata m2, 1 internal usb header, 3 usb 3.0 ports, 1 external sata port, micro usb uart port when installing any os, I have to use the uart port to pass through the text using serial , “it kind of like a screen” back in the day and on some servers they still use uart, I would like to see the setup use uart, so I can install from a usb using this method. My device also needs an os that does eat ram More information about kernel and stuff can be found here so I guess it would be nice if we could have the ability to change the kernel if not that’s also will work