* Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> [2016-04-13 16:55]: > However, I'm thinking about whether or not Debian can engage more > users by providing an experience similar to OpenWRT. OpenWRT builds > ready-to-run images that people can flash into their devices, reboot > and get started. There is no need for the user to run through all > the installer questions, on many devices they can simply log in to > the standard admin page, upload the OpenWRT image through a web form > and it starts running with default settings.
While it's not as seamless as you describe, we provide installer images for a number of NAS devices that you can flash using the original firmware's upgrade process. When you reboot, you can SSH into Debian installer and do the installation. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

