A few more remarks pertaining openmediavault.
Points I found in favour of OMV;
- the OMV BTSync repository is updated often
- OMV-PyLoad installs fine whereas if you try to install it from Debian repositories or manually you may stumble on a serious issue pertaining GNUTLS
Points against OMV:
- A bunch of critical packages are outdated and lack functionality, namely: MiniDLNA (old version does not organize shown folders as well) , Aria2 (uses a buggy version) and OwnCloud (v7 allows communicating with other OwnCloud installations, OMV uses v.6 and the maintainer has an “attitude” which affords it little priority)
- Installs Nginx by default. This conflicts with many packages you will find in Debian Repositories which use Apache instead.
- For the sake of it’s own integrity it prevents installation from other sources and actually reduces your freedom of choice. In the end you get a deliberately simplified interface which does not handle - and worst prevents you from handling - more granular settings.
For anyone trying to elude a manufacturer’s custom Kernel, OMV will corner you in a different way and does not seem the way to go.
BTW, the nice system performance graphs OMV offers (for the utility they may actually have) can be easily obtained by using any of these collected front-end tools
