I had, 17 years ago, a D-Link DNS 232 NAS with an Arm CPU. It ran a pirated (GPL violating) version of Linux. A lawsuit happened, and people published a free version which could install debian in a chroot. I ran an nginx webserver on it, and MoinMoin wiki. The wiki was a tad slow because the box had only 32 Megabyte of RAM (yes, Megabytes). But it worked nicely for years. Had to take it down when Python2 was not supported any more, since MoinMoin developers never managed to port it to Python 3.
Yep, they work decently. Mine has 256Mb RAM and handles music streaming and Samba Shares via OoenMediaVault. I have it blocked from the internet these days since it can’t install latest kernels and probably has a ton of exploit CVEs
My iomega ARM based NAS from 15 years ago runs Debian
I had, 17 years ago, a D-Link DNS 232 NAS with an Arm CPU. It ran a pirated (GPL violating) version of Linux. A lawsuit happened, and people published a free version which could install debian in a chroot. I ran an nginx webserver on it, and MoinMoin wiki. The wiki was a tad slow because the box had only 32 Megabyte of RAM (yes, Megabytes). But it worked nicely for years. Had to take it down when Python2 was not supported any more, since MoinMoin developers never managed to port it to Python 3.
Yep, they work decently. Mine has 256Mb RAM and handles music streaming and Samba Shares via OoenMediaVault. I have it blocked from the internet these days since it can’t install latest kernels and probably has a ton of exploit CVEs